The Second World War, also known as World War II, was the most devastating conflict in human history, altering the course of ...

World War II, the deadliest and most destructive conflict in human history, reshaped the world as we know it. In this video, ...

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 ...

Instead of Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland marking the beginning of the global conflict, some academics at a second world war history seminar in Beijing on Tuesday said it should be Japan’s ...

Pioneering Daily Express reporter who broke news of the Second World War Clare Hollingworth, one of the first and finest female foreign correspondents, was only 27 and a week into her first job ...

The Empress of Asia was the second big Canadian Pacific ship to be the lost in the Second World War: the Empress of Britain had been sunk off the coast of Ireland on Oct. 28, 1940. Article content ...

The world still struggles with the consequences of this largely forgotten chapter of history. Cruel ironies abound. Take the wretched fate of a quarter of a million or so Jews.

The Canadian War Museum has new exhibition, Voices From the Second World War. Danielle and Renée (L) Thibeault, daughters of veteran Léopold Thibeault, Canadian Army. Photo by Jean Levac / POSTMEDIA ...

The trust has described the lecture as an "invitation to connect with history through the eyes of a Second World War Gurkha veteran".