As the official British history of the war put it ... artillery, tanks, motorized machine guns and aircraft sent the German armies reeling back toward the Rhine. The effect was so glaring ...

The United States military has produced some incredible machine guns throughout history, but worldwide, the machine gun has ...

However, new weapons like the pike and longbow changed the battlefield. At Morgarten (1315), Swiss foot soldiers defeated ...

In March 1944, 76 officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp. In 1977, a key member of the escape team talked to the ...

In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama ... with China escalates Today in History: April 11, the liberation ...

Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and stories to bring history to life and put you into the ...