In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, ...

LSE Professor of International History Sönke Neitzel specialises in the history of war, especially the First and Second World Wars. In 2001 Neitzel discovered a new source for researching the Third ...

IDF soldiers Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag, held hostage by Hamas for 477 days, were released to ...

On the Alaska Highway project, the military took steps to position African American troops away from towns and cities in order to control the reactions of locals. During the Second World War ...

The community hub was originally built for returning Second World War soldiers and Ms Baillie wants to ensure future veterans ...

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 ...

The Second World War was "simply 'the War' until the late ... such when America entered the conflict in 1941. Ukraine's former military commander-in-chief, Valery Zaluzhny, said earlier this ...

The Second World War was the first modern conflict in which millions more civilians died than soldiers. As economic production became essential to military success, civilians were conscripted into ...

Beutlich was demobbed in Britain in 1946 after serving on both sides in the Second World War (first as a German army conscript and then in the Polish Corps of the British army). A pre-war art ...

The War is the story of the Second World War through the ... Before Pearl Harbor, the US military had been totally unprepared for a world war.