the 1939–45 conflict has been perceived in the UK as a ‘good’ war resulting in the triumph of western democracies over evil fascist regimes, says Emma Hanna, a lecturer in the School of History at the ...

Few weapons in the history of warfare have instilled as much fear in their opponents as the German Army’s Tiger tank of World ...

The remains of a Second World War lookout post have been uncovered by a Brierley Hill park group after an archaeological dig ...

The site of Alconbury Weald, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was once a key military hub during World War II and the Cold ...

Most people don't know they are in a world war until the conflict is well underway – or so history teaches us. The Second World War was "simply 'the War' until the late 1940s" in Britain ...

Narrator: The Second World War was the largest war every fought in human history. By the end over fifty countries had somehow been involved in the war. Because Hitler wanted to expand the size of ...

An official war artist went to Belsen with the Red Cross team to record and reflect their work. We ran recovery homes and additional support to hospitals Throughout the Second World War, properties ...

Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism, listens during an event ...

Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that ... for the first time in U.S. history for a substantial number of middle ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter ...

History stopped in 1936 ... The years spanning the Second World War — from Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, to Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945 — were driven by ...

It was formed in 1938, just before the outbreak of war. The women were sent to army camps for their basic training. At the end of the training there were written and practical texts to find out ...