“I ran into the living room and I said ‘there’s a war, there’s a war on’. I was quite excited,” said Ruth, now 98. “I had no idea of the horror in my mother’s face, because she had been a nurse in the ...

On the night of April 10, 1942, a massive explosion shattered the calm at Jacksonville Beach, Florida, as the SS Gulfamerica, an oil tanker carrying over 100,000 barrels of fuel, erupted into flames ...

Little wonder, then, that when World War II finally came to an end, the celebrations in Orkney went on long into the night.

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two with islanders ...

IF Nazi spies had been a bit more on the ball as the Allies pushed into Italy during the Second World War, things might have been rather ...

Banned from flying in the U.S., these 25 American women headed to Britain to help ferry military aircraft—and fascinated the ...

On May 3, 1945, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of Lübeck in ...

As time marches relentlessly forward and the anniversary of VE Day approaches, fewer and fewer survivors of the Second World ...

Whether in factories, the fields or in uniform in a multitude of roles previously reserved for men, historian Helen Fry ...

Nikolai Shishkin was 19 years old when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. In 1940, after finishing school, he was called ...

In the water area near Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar Territory, an attack by drones and unmanned boats (BEC) is being ...