Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...

The film recounts the events leading up to D-Day during World War II, focusing on the crucial decisions made by Allied ...

It can be easy to look at the blue plaques scattering London or watch any of a thousand war films, and think, okay, the ...

Since then, our beautiful country has fought two other wars. We call them the First and Second World War. We have endured ...

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has unveiled a programme of activities to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE ...

Relatives of Pte. Arthur Vanance who also served (left to right): Louie Halley, Ernest Murray, and Albert Vanance (Arthur’s brother). (Submitted by the family of Albert and Elsie Vanasse.

Members of 3AMC at Nadzab base prepare supplies for delivery to forward areas on the ground in New Guinea, May 1944. The men ...

Workers found the unexploded bomb overnight while doing earthmoving near the tracks in the Seine-Saint-Denis region that ...

In all, Major General Curtis LeMay sent 279 B -29 bombers from the United States Army Air Forces low over Tokyo to destroy the historical heart of the capital, Shitamachi, a working-class area by the ...

VE Day stands for Victory in Europe Day and commemorates the moment when the Second World War came to an end in Europe. On 8 ...

OP-ED. History offers welcome insights into the current geopolitical context, writes Olivier Wieviorka. How might the ...

The grave of a Canadian soldier who went missing in the Netherlands during the Second World War has been identified as that of Private Arthur Vanance, according to the Department of National Defence ...