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

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

Nottinghamshire residents are being encouraged to play their part in helping to record the names of those from the county who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 failure to accept guilt for war crimes and crimes against humanity has been a recurring theme in the work of the human ...

Yet interviewing child survivors of the war for my new book Blitz Kids, I was struck by how many had in fact stayed behind andwitnessed the bombing close-up in cities around the UK – not just ...

The allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, commonly known as D-day, was an enormously significant moment in the history of the second world war. Commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, ...

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 ...

Denoël packs an extraordinary and at times overwhelming amount of detail into this enthralling history of espionage and intrigue surrounding the papacy since the start of World War II. ... Vatican ...