Often, Russian forces hide "anti-lift" explosives that set off the larger mine when a sapper attempts to remove it. If there is any danger of such a device lurking below an anti-tank mine ...

Only a fraction of Napoleon's Grande Armée made it back to France A Russian historian has come up with a new theory about the legend that the French Emperor Napoleon hid wagonloads of stolen ...

The remains of one of Napoleon's favourite generals have been returned to France, two years after they were discovered in western Russia. The one-legged skeleton of Charles-Étienne Gudin was ...