Had London simply taken a step back and realized the Germans were disinterested in deploying the Tirpitz from its Norwegian ...

The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship’s destruction their main goal in the early ...

The Bismarck was the lead ship of her class, constructed by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany.The magnificent ship was launched on February 14, 1939. She displaced 41,700 tons under standard ...

February 26th marked the 140th anniversary of one of the most consequential events in the history of Western imperialism: the ...

Senior military officers from more than 30 countries across Europe and beyond met in England on Thursday to flesh out plans ...

Questions are mounting in Canada and in Europe over whether big-ticket purchases of high-end U.S. weaponry are still a wise strategic choice.

A sadness, like the last reverberations of an iron bell, stole into German hearts last week as the Countess Maria Rantzau. only daughter of the great Prince Bismarck, died at Kiel, in her 77th year.

A constitutional crisis in 1860s Prussia could teach Americans the importance of public participation in democracy.

The German elections confirmed that Germany, traditionally the most powerful country in Europe at least potentially, since Bismarck founded the German Empire in 1871, has arrived at a crossroads, ...

Yesterday, the German parliament approved a historic amount of debt-funded investment in defence and infrastructure. Over the next few years, Germany may spend up to €1 trillion (£841 billion) on ...

The fact that a routine diplomatic meeting unraveled into an event that reshaped the global order shocked many but has historical precedent. In numerous past incidents, what began as a trivial ...

Germany’s “people’s parties” might ... the vote – the centre-left party’s worst result since the days of Bismarck. And while the centre-right alliance of the Christian Democrat and ...