While in conversation with author and journalist Mark Whitaker, author Becky Aikman talked about how the American women pilots who volunteered to ferry warplanes for the British military during World ...

Most were just 20 years old. Some were British, others came from across the Commonwealth and occupied Europe. Together, they ...

A new film dramatises the rescue during WW2 of hundreds of British POWs from the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese cargo liner. The story has not been widely recounted – until now.

The oldest of the four is Vertex. It dates back all the way to 1912, when Claude Lyons founded the company to create reliable military timepieces. There was a long hiatus – the company ceased trading ...

Described as "extraordinary and rare", the 47-page document details how the Channel Islands were liberated from Nazi rule by ...

Even 80 years on, the inhumane treatment meted out to Allied captives during the Second World War by the Japanese remains ...