World War II, also known as the Second World War, was the global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945
FOR Hiroo Onoda, the Second World War did not end in 1945. The fanatical Japanese soldier did not believe his country had surrendered to to Allies – and carried...
THEY were the lions of the jungle – 10,000 British troops led by an eccentric genius. With their distinctive slouch hats, the Chindits were the highly trained s...
A COUPLE discovered a World War II Nazi bunker hidden under their home in Guernsey. Bizarrely, they have decided to have a Halloween party in the eerie lair and...
THE truth over the death of a duck-billed platypus sent to Winston Churchill as a wartime gift has finally been uncovered. Researchers found the baby monotreme...
A D-DAY veteran war hero who became a TikTok sensation late in life has died aged 102.Papa Jake Larson survived German gunfire on Normandy beaches in 1944 and t...
ANCIENT erotic art stolen from Pompeii more than 80 years ago has finally been returned, Italy’s cultural heritage police have announced. The 2,000-year-old mos...
BRITAIN will sign a deal with France to co-ordinate nuclear strikes in the event of World War Three.It is the first time has signalled could be used to help an...
IN the heart of an active military training area, an eerie silence engulfs an abandoned village trapped in time.Derelict are among the few signs that human life...
ONLY 8,000 World War Two veterans are still alive out of the five million British forces who fought for the nation.And a new survey to mark the end of the war 8...
THOUSANDS of US troops flanked by battle tanks and advanced stealth jets will march on the streets as President Donald Trump kicks off a grand military parade â...
CHINA has given rare insight into its DF-5 nuclear missile â a 7,500-mile-range weapon with staggering explosive power.The missile is said to pack hundreds of...
THEY were witnesses to Nazi rule on British soil â and they had to choose whether to collaborate, resist, or walk the line between them.In June 1940 took cont...
