Europe is marking one of its most joyous days in history. The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on the continent ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

Follow minute by minute details of Britain's VE Day celebrations on May 8, 1945 as the nation celebrated victory over Nazi ...

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

One of the most important dates in World War II, is May 9, 1945, when the Soviet red flag with the hammer and sickle emblem ...

Great Britain, the United States, and other Allied nations celebrated Victory in Europe Day as World War II came to an end in ...

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

Follow minute by minute details of Britain's VE Day celebrations on May 8, 1945 as the nation celebrated victory over Nazi ...

Legend had it that Dorothy Furey was the daughter of a wealthy banana importer. Legend had it that her family lost a fortune ...

The 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) and the ...

Over a million Africans who were called to service by colonial powers took part in the war. Many never returned – and those ...

It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II. Arriving in a Red Cross parcel but with no balls to hit, Sydney Smith had to ...