In the final days of April 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched a relentless assault on Berlin, culminating in the fierce ...

The battle for Berlin was a relentless, overwhelming assault marked by the largest artillery bombardment in history, with millions of shells raining down on the city. As Soviet forces closed in from ...

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with military historian Antony Beevor about what happens when tyrannical regimes are deposed. In the case of Iraq, Beevor suggests that even if the population is glad to ...