“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 ...

Joining up at the start of the war, London-born Mr Barnes went on to serve for 23 years and said sinking a German U-boat was his biggest ... years since the end of WW2, Mr Barnes, who moved ...

Exploiting a lapse in naval protection, German E-boats infiltrated the training zone under cover of night, launching a deadly surprise attack that turned the rehearsal into a tragic, haunting ...

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

At the height of the season, there can be as many as 10 cruise boats double-parked along the riverbank. The local economy is based on wine and peaches, which combine into a sort of German Bellini ...

A man of quiet humility and remarkable strength, he stands as one of the last living witnesses to D-Day, the momentous Allied invasion that changed the course of World War II. His legacy ... bomb in ...

Few naval vessels have developed as enduring of a legacy as German U-Boats, but what does that name actually mean?

AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis' historic defeat 80 years ago this week. Allied forces brought World War ...

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

on Thursday welcomed the decision taken by the German parliament to exclude Russia and Belarus from the main commemorative event marking the end of World War II in Berlin. Alicia Windzio/dpa ...