wwii

More people need to know about Hiroo Onoda, the soldier who didn’t believe WWII was over—and refused to surrender for nearly 30 years.

Duct tape is one of the best inventions to come out of WWII, but few people know the bizarre story behind its name.

After his first wife died in a gruesome accident, King Leopold III thought he’d hit rock bottom—but he was terribly mistaken.

Charles I was the last Emperor of Austria, and watching his dramatic decline is like watching a car crash in slow motion. It's so brutal, but you can't look away...

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s bomb famously stopped WWII at great cost to his own morals. But few people know the even darker end to the story.

The twisted life of Kim Philby makes spy movies look like child's play. But what kind of man was the greatest double agent in history?