An Antiques Roadshow guest was overwhelmed as he was told the true value of his grandad's Second World War medals collection.

In “Judgment at Tokyo,” the political scholar Gary J. Bass examines the post-World War II prosecution of Japanese military atrocities and makes the case for the real efficacy of international law.

An Antiques Roadshow expert was "astounded" by the brave actions of a young guest's grandfather during the Second World War ...

Best books about the Second World War to read this year. From memoirs and biographies to historical deep dives into the war’s most brutal battles, these are some of the best books about WWII.

T HE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, is ...

The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern ...

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Can "anything new be said about the Second World War", asked Adam Sisman in The Observer. "Unexpectedly the answer is yes." Among the "surprising facts" I learnt from this "revelatory book" are ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

The four composers experienced the Second World War in radically different ways. Strauss remained in Germany and Austria, his reputation forever sullied by his ambivalent relationship with the ...

An extraordinary and at times overwhelming amount of detail is packed into this enthralling history of espionage and intrigue surrounding the papacy since the start of World War II. Because of the ...

Over the years, countless writers have tried to unpick the motivation behind acts of heroism and collaboration during the second world war. Robert Seethaler, Sebastian Faulks and Anthony Doerr ...