A collection of rare medals belonging to a Battle of France war hero who survived being captured by the Germans is set to ...

Winston Churchill depictions had always proven popular, and none more so than when Gary Oldman starred as the British Prime ...

Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...

Season 2 picks up in late 1940. World on Fire’s return will take viewers from the war-torn streets of Britain deep into Nazi Germany, the resistance within occupied France, and the brutal sands ...

(Photo: AFP/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt) The unexploded bomb was found "near the tracks" about 2.5km from the station overnight ...

Rationing of food and other goods during World War Two changed the social landscape ... Official rationing began on 8 January 1940 with bacon, butter and sugar. Rations were distributed by weight ...

London: A British Royal Air Force pilot was killed when the World ... of 1940. With a total of 20,341 Spitfires built, it remains the most produced British combat aircraft of World War II ...

Nella Last kept a diary throughout World War Two ... Britain entered the war with Germany. Food rationing was introduced in January 1940. In the opening months of the war the only significant ...

Trains throughout Paris and France have ground to a halt and connections across Europe have been cancelled after a World War ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

Four of the 8ft steel silhouettes to be unveiled for the Women in War exhibition Women who played vital roles during World War Two are ... immortalized as 8ft-tall (2.4m) steel silhouettes ...

The war also came home when Manchester and Salford were bombed for three consecutive days between December 22-24 1940, leaving hundreds dead.