Britain has stopped the export of rare wartime papers that once belonged to national hero Alan Turing, who helped the Allies ...

While Hitler's plans for invasion in 1940 were defeated, an army of German and Italian troops did occupy parts of Britain. Held in camps across the country, they were put to work - and even after ...

By reviving an idea from the 1940s, the Labour Party government is hoping to overcome the development hurdles that have ...

This article looks at the 7 most powerful countries before World War 2 and dives into one of the deadliest conflicts in human ...

In the summer of 1940 – after Hitler swept through France ... Scrub back and forth below to see a Battle of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women?

British director and producer Tom St John Gray has come full circle: his latest docus take him back to his dad's old stamping ...

BRITISH tanks have stormed into Russia as part of Ukraine’s lightning cross-border blitz. Challenger 2 tanks are said to have ...

The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941. They were part of a package of allied military support for the USSR, paid for by the United ...

How did Germany rebuild its economy after ww2? Slowly but gradually ... whereas the Soviet zone became East Germany. Throughout the British Zone between 1945 and 1949, this paper examines a variety of ...

Truman, British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began meeting at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin, Germany, in the final Allied summit of World War II, according to ...

At the outbreak of World War II 20 years later ... tore at each other with banks of heavy machine guns. In 1940, Great Britain faced a formidable threat from the German Luftwaffe, led by the ...

The US ambassador to Japan skipped a ceremony on Friday marking the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in ...