In early 1943, the Second World War was in full swing, the fortunes of the Axis Powers seemed to have turned. On July 25th ...

Otto Skorzeny became famous as the scar-faced SS commando who led the daring raid that pulled Mussolini from a mountaintop ...

‘Ah! The Germans are lucky. They always find themselves facing morons or cowards,’ Benito Mussolini told Clara Petacci, his young mistress, in one of their many pillow talks. David Kertzer’s The Pope ...

Donald Trump doubled down Monday on his recent statement that conservative Christians won’t have to vote again if they help elect him in November. At a campaign event for evangelical Christians last ...

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, tyrants who did not especially care for one another personally, signed onto a partnership that was a major step toward the war that devastated much of ...

This week’s quiz is equal parts historical, morbid and representative of enduring heartbreak. Eighty years ago this week, two of the 20th Century’s most lethal dictators, and enemies of the Allied ...