Ernest “Smokey” Smith crawls through the rain-drenched night, his uniform caked with mud. It is October 21, 1944, and the bad ...

Amid the chaos of World War II, the German advance swept across Europe with devastating speed and precision. Entire towns became battlefields, and soldiers faced unimaginable conditions as lines ...

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This British war film that was released in the 1950s and is based on the real-life of a famed British army officer who was ...

He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he ...

The Colditz Story is considered a classic film within British cinema since it first appeared on the big screen in 1955, and ...

Maureen Stiles will be coming to The Hold in Ipswich to share the story of her father Frank Slinn, who fought in the Second World War and ...

Watching zombie horror on Halloween is the perfect fit, but it isn't the only time to indulge in some greatly scary stuff.

As Veterans Day approaches, columnist Joe Blackstock shares stories – big and small – recalling those who have served in the ...

The film's synopsis reads: "German soldiers (Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel) go from victory to ...

A World War Two veteran celebrated his 100th birthday with an emotional surprise that took him straight back to his army days ...

Through years of research, AI-assisted photographic analysis, and archival images supplied by a distant relative, German historian Jürgen Matthäus was finally able to put a name to the gunman.