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

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

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

One major change was that many women continued to work in their new roles rather than returning to traditional jobs as happened at the end of the First World War. The Second World War was also a ...

Russia's artillery has profound strategic and psychological effects, and its use through history has signalled the nation's ...

The Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, was awarded for bravery 54 times between 1943 and 1949: to 18 ...

The Delfin ("Dolphin") was a Greek submarine in service with the Hellenic Navy during the Balkan Wars and the First World War ...

Farmers are warning of food shortages as record rainfall threatens to bring the first season without a harvest on some farms since the end of the Second World War. Vast swathes of farmland are ...

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 top economies gather in South Africa on Wednesday and Thursday, for a meeting marred by the absence or curtailed attendance of key members and ...