before Japan’s Emperor Hirohito ­surrendered six days later. 1.30am (Japan), 2.30am local time: Nine days after US President ...

Dan Snow & History Hit were given unique access to the house formerly home to the Commandant of the camp, Rudolf Höss. Inside Dan uncovers chilling evidence of the horrors that unfolded 80 years ago ...

VJ Day will be honoured and remembered with special programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio, Sounds and the BBC Archive to mark ...

Joseph Rochfort, a maverick US naval officer with a talent for crosswords, and John Tiltman, a British Army Brigadier, never ...

Setting out the broadcaster’s plans, BBC Director-General Tim Davie said: “The 80th anniversary of VJ Day is a moment to honour the courage and sacrifice of all who served in the Far East during the ...

Large mysterious ornate lanterns were found in Fresno, with mobody seeming to know hwere they came from.The lanterns were found by a High-Speed Rail contractor ...

THE experiences of an 'ordinary chap' from Skipton who joined the RAF in the Second World War and who was sent to the Far East will be the ...

While not having heard until recently of the ‘Hiroshima Committee’, I have no doubt the members of this activist group are ...

President Donald Trump's latest executive order placing tariffs on many U.S. trade partners — the next step in his trade ...

Forgotten.    In case you missed it too, June 25 marked the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War — the first hot front of the Cold War.   No ceremonies or any acknowledgment took place ...

CHAPTER 11 The wheels of the vehicles of war with which Nazism [was] halted came from the latex of rubber trees collected on ...

The United States and the European Union avoided the worst-case scenario: a damaging, all-out trade war between allies that ...