In September 1914, a single German U-boat ventured into the North Sea. Lieutenant Otto Weddigen’s U-9 slipped past patrols ...

Hans Rose was a German submarine (U-boat) captain during the First World War. There are several accounts, both from friend ...

Russell Crowe’s Nuremberg sinks Das Boot, one of the greatest WW2 submarine movies of all time, at the global box office. See its haul here.

Some of Australia’s top naval experts have cast doubt on the government’s $368bn AUKUS price tag, saying the program to ...

The bills passed as part of the deal that ended the longest U.S. government shutdown in history include billions of dollars ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Pope Formosus was charged with being unworthy of the pontificate, of violating canon law, of perjury, and of serving as a ...

I always enjoyed talking with Isa Ali, the owner of Angelina’s, as he made my weekly regular. He had opened the shop a year ...

Russia has its endless war in Ukraine, Africa has the Sudanese civil war, the United States is on the brink of invading ...

When governor-general Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, Australia lost more than a government. It ...

One of the most successful bomber groups in World War Two operated from a lost Cambridgeshire airfield. Today, its site has ...

It seems to be gaining traction as we witness the rise of Mubarak Munyagwa, currently serving as the president and ...