More than 600 people from Jersey ended up in an internment camp near the town of Bad Wurzach, in southern Germany, and some ...

World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945.

Netflix currently streams several World War II movies, but a few stand above the rest. Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on May 21, 2025: World War II buffs can't do much better than a Netflix subscription.

After 1945, historians found the term "First World War" appropriate because they saw 1914-1918 as the first of a particular type of international conflict - the world's first industrialised "total ...

131 World War II vets die each day, on average; here is how their stories are being preserved. Ever since the last American veteran of WWI died in 2011, World War II has been the oldest conflict ...

Also called The Great War, World War I was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, and set the stage for another world war just 20 years later.

But, of course, we now know that it was just the first World War – and a preview of more conflict to come. More than 8.5 million troops perished in World War I, which ended 100 years ago this week.

World War I (1914 to 1918) and World War II (1939 to 1945) saw some of the biggest naval battles and operations in history, and shipwrecks from this era are scattered across the world's oceans ...

Three World War II veterans turned a simple museum cookout in Northern California into something they will never forget. CBS News Bay Area's Rick Villaroman shows why their stories made the 4th of ...

When World War I broke out in France, in August 1914, getting a wounded soldier from the battlefield to a hospital required horse-drawn wagons or mules with baskets on either side.

World War II movies, of which there are many, are set across the world as well. Across Europe, Africa, and Asia, if there was fighting, there is probably a movie about it.

World War I demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and sultans. It introduced chemical weapons and aerial bombing. It brought women into the work force and hastened their legal right to vote.