From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

During World War II, as Nazi forces besieged the Russian city of Leningrad, scientists at the city’s famed seed bank made a pact to protect the collection and consume nothing, even if it could have ...

For more than two years during the Nazi siege of Leningrad, botanists in the Russian city guarded a treasury of seeds, grains and tubers with their lives. In 1921, when Nikolai I. Vavilov arrived ...

The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice Simon Parkin Scribner (2024) After Simon Parkin’s account of the siege of Leningrad and the fate of the ...

Germany’s siege of Leningrad was one of the Second World War’s worst atrocities ... anxious about her end-of-term exams and has an unreciprocated crush on a boy in her class. But from 22 June, when ...

the Russians continued their systematic pressure against Novgorod and the siege of Leningrad. Encircled and facing annihilation were German defenders of Mozhaisk, last Nazi stand within Moscow’s ...

Russian President Vladimir Putinsaid Wednesday that he signed a decree awarding 80,000 rubles ($780) to the country’s World ...

From 1975: U.S. Rep. Thomas Foley, the district’s Democratic congressman, was expected to be appointed to a key position in ...

Then we had the Russian Revolution, which also happened in these buildings. Later came the German siege of Leningrad in WWII. This museum is full of history, and at the same time, it presents a ...

U.S. awards were awarded to not only major Soviet military leaders and famous ace pilots, but also to ordinary privates, sergeants and ...

Born in post-war Leningrad amid the grim legacy of the Nazi siege, the young Vladimir Putin learnt survival arts more appropriate to the chaotic post-Soviet dog-eat-dog society of the 1990s than ...

Neo-Nazi groups share a hatred for Jews and a love for Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. While they also hate nonwhite people, LGBTQ people and even sometimes Christians, they perceive “the Jew” as their ...