In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

Doctors nurses medics and stretcher-bearers must venture wherever someone is injured and the cry for..

In 1935 Evelyn Shillington started a diary little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover. Eve j..

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On capture British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans “For you the war is over”..

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Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first ..

In 1940 Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one the nations of Europe had fallen and ..

The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened beyo..

During the third week of February 1944 the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever roun..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

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While their husbands brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers sisters and friends..

On 11th November 1920 huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the Unknown Warrior..

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