Looking back at the First World War.
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The last century, through its great cataclysms, offers two clear, ringing, and, unfortunately, contradictory lessons.
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Switzerland is famous for its neutrality. It sat out both world wars. It's a refuge for international finance.
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The Second World War which began 65 years ago on September 1, 1939, is increasingly sliding into oblivion in Austrians' minds, said an opinion poll on Friday.
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BAD AROLSEN, Germany- World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance.Comment
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Poignant pictures of returning Black Watch soldiers feature on the front of many of Sunday's newspapers.
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Looking back to the revolutions that shook Europe and the world 15 years ago this month, we should rejoice in what has been gained -- freedom, democracy, and transcendence of Europe's 40-year division.
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My British school days were a kindergarten Battle of the Bulge. I grew up, half German, a generation after the Second World War and my school friends fought the Hun in the playground every lunchtime.
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It would surprise many people to learn that most of those countries have only been around since 1922.
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The Monitor has followed the Methboubs since before the war.
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Servicemen and women who gave their lives fighting for Britain are being remembered across the country in Armistice Day ceremonies.
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Where the war was once the dominating factor in mainstream economic prognostication, lately it has become little more than a tragic sideshow.
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A different perspective on the war in Iraq: behind the scenes at a hospital.
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One of the world's great collections of World War I artifacts has an updated venue in Kansas City.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play,  T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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Recent ceremonies at Auschwitz to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation by Russian forces of Nazi Germany's main death camp have rightly made us think about man's inhumanity to man and ponder how such ...
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By Donna Borak Associated Press  WASHINGTON - For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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Frank Buckles is 106 now and not as spry as he used to be. But try to help him from a chair to his feet, and he will bellow a loud, clear "No." Ninety years after the headstrong teenager lied his way into a uniform, then the European theater of World War I, the older version of that boy remains fiercely independent, determined to live life on his terms, at his pace.