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Spies might be supposed to be masters of disguise, but a British intelligence officer caused embarrassment to his political masters through his pencha...
Ken Loach's recent film Spirit of 45 brilliantly celebrates the triumphant mood that delivered a Labour Landslide election victory at the end of World War Two and the establishment of both the Welfare State and nationalised public utilities.
On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler is believed to have shot himself dead in his underground bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin. Eva Braun, wh...
A devoted couple who married on Valentine’s Day have shared a joint funeral after dying within a week of each other. Relatives believe Beryl Mat...
Emerging from the sands like a Phoenix from the ashes, the skeleton of a magnificent seaside hotel abandoned in the Second World War after falling vic...
Famously gruff and tenacious, Prime Minister Winston Churchill earned a deserved reputation as the ‘British Bulldog.’ The cigar-chomping, hard-...
Experts hunting for dozens of Second World War Spitfires thought to have been buried in the Burmese jungle have found no planes at the sites they have...
The difficult task of locating and excavating dozens of British Spitfires that were buried in the Burmese jungle during the Second World War is to get...
The United States once tried to build a "tsunami bomb" designed to wipe out coastal cities by triggering huge underwater explosions. The tests were...
The last surviving code-breaker from the Second World War has received an MBE in the New Year Honours. Bletchley Park mastermind Raymond "Jerry" Ro...
The European Union has come in for a lot of stick for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, as southern European countries are declared near bankrupt, riots ...
By Richard Foreman author of Warsaw and A Hero of Our Time. There seems to be an increasingly alarming trend nowadays for some people to consider t...
A huge collection of Joseph Goebbels' writings, from his love letters and school essays to poetry and his university theses, is going up for auction. ...
A 1943 scheme by Nazi Germany to assassinate Winston Churchill through an explosive bar of chocolate has been uncovered nearly 70 years later in a sec...
Nearly a million British soldiers were killed in the First World War. Is this what they died for?
Hundreds of original documents, including seven signed letters from Winston Churchill written in the 1940s, have been unearthed during a council's spr...
Over 20 years ago, George Perry dismissed this film as 'unconvincing and cliché-ridden, and not for a moment are its players believable Yugoslavs.' (Perry 1981, 72) Putting aside the latter notion of how Ealing would populate a film with 'believable Yugoslavs,' that is a harsh criticism of a solid and enjoyable piece of filmmaking that both resembles and departs from standard Ealing wartime fare.
Reckon this image of Fidel Castro and Christian Bale as Batman might be Photoshopped? Well, you reckon correctly, as just that has happened thanks...
The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip, has revealed the moment "all hell broke loose" during the Battle of Cape Matapan in the Second World War, in a ...
Twenty "lost" Spitfires that were buried in Burma during the Second World War could return to the skies, it has been revealed. David Cameron and Bu...
A massive plume of smoke billowed over the Thames Estuary today as a bomb disposal squad destroyed a Second World War German mine. Royal Navy exper...
The royal family are marking 10 years since the death of the Queen Mother, wife to King George VI and mother to Queen Elizabeth II. The royals, min...
Work on the London 2012 Olympic Games momentarily came to a standstill on Wednesday, as workmen came face to face with a Nazi bomb left over from the ...
The trouble is that Putin's attachment to democracy is largely based on him winning elections, never losing them.
Nazi surgical tools formerly owned by an SS Major and possibly used in a concentration camp during the Holocaust are being put up for auction. A wo...
