A Nazi captain gave artwork, which depicts an intimate Roman romance, to a civilian. When he died, his heirs decided to ...

Italy entered World War II with big ambitions but quickly ran into serious problems on every front. In this video, we explore why Italy’s military campaigns so often failed - from poor planning and ...

Armed with Gloster Gladiators—an aircraft already considered obsolete—RAF pilots over Malta repelled Axis air raids for days.

An mosaic panel on travertine slabs from the Roman era has been returned to Pompeii after being stolen by a Nazi German ...

In World War II, the Greeks, supported by British Commonwealth military forces, firmly resisted Italy’s efforts to invade from Albania. Germany redirected some of its troops there and helped ...

An intricate mosaic panel looted from Italy during World War II has been repatriated to Pompeii after some 80 years, Italian ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

The U.S. has launched a partnership with Italian authorities in order to renew efforts to recover the remains of American soldiers who went missing during World War II.

World War II brought the strands of world history together. It is not enough to remember the dead, many of whom were deliberately rendered nameless by their killers. For those who survived, the ...