Publishers are racing to churn out more historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters.

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

E ighty years after the Allied powers accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender and ended the fighting in Europe, world ...

War in Ukraine and the rise of the hard right in several EU member states is putting the founding democratic principles of ...

Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union recognizes its Victory Day on May 9 after having a second set of surrender ...

Glasgow was a major contributor to Britain’s war effort during the Second World War, today we’re exploring life on the ...

The granddaughter of a man who served in World War Two says his diaries have given her a valuable insight into what was asked ...

In “Spitfires” by Becky Aikman, the saga of wartime American women pilots comes vividly to life.

Dashiell Hammett, the well-known author of “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Thin Man,” established a newspaper called the ...

Artefacts of Legge’s life ... World War. David Pracy, the Essex archivist, carefully removes the album of newspaper cuttings ...