World on Fire starts in 1939 as Europe is on the brink of war. The new large-scale BBC series focuses on different stories across the continent, from the lives of those living in Manchester to the ...

Napoleon said Gdansk is "key to everything", something a 1,000-year history that has seen it regularly change hands attests to. The maritime city known until 1945 as Danzig has been under the rule of ...

When German author Gunter Grass was born in a suburb of this historic city on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea 80 years ago it was known to most of the world as Danzig. The port now goes under the ...

Gdansk, Poland — Over the past 1,000 years, this city on the Baltic has gone through cycles of great prosperity and almost total destruction. This is the city where World War II began 76 years ago on ...

Napoleon said Gdansk was "key to everything" and history has borne that out: the Solidarity trade union, whose opposition led to the end of Communist rule, started in the pretty coastal city. Napoleon ...