In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended ... Here we look at four highly skilled British military personnel the Axis forces learned to respect ...

They believe there appears to have been a “misinterpretation” of the rules which saw Mayne’s VC nomination downgraded after ...

The day the Second ... after the war was far more comfortable than the years preceding it. Jim experienced extreme poverty before World War Two and joined the Army as a part time soldier when ...

EXCLUSIVE: Geoff Roberts, a 99-year-old Second World War veteran, prepares for what might be his final journey to Arnhem ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all ... of the American Soldier was tested against ...

The German airforce dropped 30,000 bombs, killing 227 people. 300,000 British soldiers were killed in the Second World War, and 15,000 of those were Welsh. One of the main impacts of the Blitz was ...

When newspapers reported that Ron Barber had been “killed in action” during the Second World War, his mother Alice ... But what kept him going? “I was British – the guards could never ...

The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict and the largest war in history. World War II changed the world map and geopolitics forever. In this war, America dropped ...