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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Medical history: When a typhus epidemic killed thousands at the height of the Second World War An excerpt from ‘1945: The Reckoning – War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World’, by Phil ...

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

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 ...