U.S. Army Maj. James J. O'Donovan of Cohoes, New York, was interred Tuesday at the national cemetery, 83 years after his ...

The remains of a soldier from upstate New York who died in World War II have been identified more than 80 years after his ...

The first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was constructed in England in 1779. It marked the inception of facilities ...

Learn the story of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, who became the highest-ranking American POW during WWII, in Jonathan Horn's newest book, "The Fate of the Generals." ...

Eric Reeves, 104, joined the Territorial Army at 16 and became a Lance Corporal with the Queen's Royal Regiment by the age of ...

After the war, Mrs Bell said her father returned to Lancashire to "get on with his life, his job in the shoe industry and ...

A Ukrainian prisoner of war who was held captive in Russian jail for 1,000 days has revealed how he survived the constant hunger and endless beatings. Journalist Oleksandr Gudilin was captured ...

In 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia ordered that all prisoners of the 30 Years War be released “without payment of ransom and without any exception.” Exchanging prisoners was common by the time ...

Russia and Ukraine said Wednesday they had each swapped 175 prisoners in one of the largest exchanges since the Russian full-scale invasion started three years ago. At such a critical moment in US ...

Ministers of the Vatican and the Russian government shared a phone call on Friday in which the two discussed global relations ...

One of the last surviving veterans of the Second World War has been sharing his experience of being held as a prisoner of war and returning to his life in Surrey. Eric Reeves, 104, joined the ...