Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

Red Army soldiers, locked in a mighty tank and infantry battle in the “Oder quadrilateral” (the big bend in the river near Frankfurt), could see the pall of smoke that hung over Berlin.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates that Europe, including the U.K., has almost 1.5 million active duty personnel. But many can't ... Geir Moulson contributed to this report ...