THE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, is ...

By the end of the war, more than half of all industrial production in the world would take place in the United States. Wartime production boomed as citizens flocked to meet the demand for labor.

At the end of February, 1945 about 1,000 surviving Japanese soldiers based on Ramree Island off the coast of Arakan, a ...

This is the gravest crisis for Western security since the end of World War Two. So which nations will step forward as the new ...

The UK is set to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II's end with a potentially grand bank ... "We are looking forward to ...

It was May 8, 1945 and on what became known as VE Day marking the end of the Second World War, 10,000 people gathered to celebrate in Finchley, North London. This incredible photograph captures ...

Victory over Japan Day on August 15 is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered, effectively bringing the Second World War to an end.

He married his partner of 65 years in a church in Creighton on the eve of the D-Day landing, and was deployed to Italy shortly after just as the Second World War was coming to an end. After his ...

Let this be a day of joy, reflection, and celebration.” VE Day stands for Victory in Europe Day and commemorates the moment when the Second World War came to an end in Europe. On 8 May 1945 the Allied ...