From the military conquests of Ancient Rome, to the high-speed dog fights of the Second World War, History of War magazine takes you through the stories, strategies, heroes and machines of armed ...

In any event, Hanson shows that the Second World War hinged to an unprecedented extent upon artillery (“At least half of the combat dead of World War II probably fell to artillery or mortar fire ...

The Second World War, also known as World War II, was the most devastating conflict in human history, altering the course of ...

What was the Second World War about? According to Allied leaders, that wasn’t a hard question. “This is a fight between a free world and a slave world,” U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace ...

Europe’s physical battles of World War II ended 75 years ago with German surrender on May 7, 1945. But that doesn’t mean the fighting is over: A wave of right-wing nationalist leaders, who ...

Chris Bambery’s book The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) is excellent and worth reading. (So, of course, is Ernest Mandel’s book on the same subject.) It agrees with Mandel that the war was ...

Horthy’s independent streak eventually provoked the Nazis to invade Hungary in March 1944; thereafter the pace of persecution quickened. Within months some 400,000 Jews from the countryside had been ...

World War II has an extensive and complicated history that many historians and scholars still debate today. It is widely believed that the war began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded ...

Second World War sacrifices remembered ahead of VE Day 80th anniversary. Sponsored. Enter the AXA Startup Angel competition to win £25,000. He said: “These things you didn’t get told.

A group of Second World War veterans came together to share a "bit of living history" ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, as they passed their stories onto schoolchildren.