World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly morning of9, 1917. Its target, the Lady Olive, was about eight miles off the ...

People like to make things more complicated than they need to be, and the words we choose to describe things are just one of those many ways. For instance, consider that all bourbons are whiskey ...

U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of the more than 1,100 Unterseeboote, or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces ...

It's time to join Lingo and his bugtastic friend Lieb as they take a trip to the seaside! Hear all about the lollypop lighthouse and learn how to say 'the boat' in German.

Britain, however, was certain the war would be won on land. To John Fisher, head of the Royal Navy, Germany’s 28 U-boats were little more than “toys” and “playthings.” But Germany itself ...