Poland's strategic location at the heart of Central Europe positions it as a vital crossroads, connecting the dense forests ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

Superior numbers and attacks on supply lines slowly choked off the Ukrainian forces holding the town of Sudzha and forced ...

Can talks between the US and Russia reach a lasting settlement over Ukraine? So far, argues historian Margaret MacMillan, the signs are not looking good ...

Back to top Episode 1 - First World War and its impact on Germany ... Territory. German land was taken away to form new European countries (such as Czechoslovakia), and recreating others like Poland.

Thereafter, American loans dried up, Germany fell ... eastern third of Poland it had taken in 1939; Poland would be compensated by extending westwards into what had been Prussia.

Is there anything more exciting than stepping onto a train? The moment when you have one foot on a platform and the other on the ledge in the train door is a huge thrill. When the journey that awaits ...

The Paris Patrie represents the insurrection as spreading throughout all parts of Poland ... Prussia, as, according to official information, it aims at preparing a similar movement in Prussian ...

In both World Wars, people assume the Allied Powers had a crushing advantage and would have inevitably won the conflicts.

It was 1928 and within five years Germany’s gangsters would be eclipsed ... extortion and prostitution on their own territory. And since social and criminal activities often revolved around ...

So, Ukraine will be at the table, I have no doubt,” Rutte said following talks with the leaders of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark and the ...