Within days, the river teemed with steamers from New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. — all choked with sightseers drawn by the defiant vessel that had become the front-page scourge of Allied ...

Kings and Generals presents a new documentary on the lesser-known German naval operations in the Pacific during World War II. This episode focuses on commerce raiders like Orion, Komet, Pinguin, and ...

For a brief period during World War I, “over there” became “over here.” More specifically, it was the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, where German sailors tried to wait out British ships off the coast of the ...

The United States was still 3,000 miles and two years away from the horrors of the Great War in Europe during the spring of 1915. But when an audacious German commerce raider eluded its pursuers and ...