On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while ...

The ‘Western-centric’ view of events plays down the role of Chinese forces in defeating fascism, one observer says.

Based on Antti Tuuri's 1984 book, Talvisota, the film goes back to 1939 and delves into when Finland tackled the Soviet army. The war raged on for 105 more days 'in extreme conditions ...

Two years earlier, America’s military preparedness was not that of a nation expecting to go to war. In 1939, the United States Army ranked thirty-ninth in the world, possessing a cavalry force ...

Amazon Prime has unearthed a "lesser known masterpiece" for its viewers – providing a 'gritty' and 'hard hitting' watch ...

The diary of a Jewish teenager from Austria has been uncovered, leading to a mystery about a man from Wolverhampton thought ...

It entered amidst the depression's blight and graduated into a world darkened by impending war. On entrance the Class of 1939 was the brightest in history; 588 ranked in the top quarter of their ...

After World War Two started in September 1939, the Nazis initially moved east, invading Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Union. This brought millions of Jewish people under their control.

there had been great enthusiasm for war. In 1939, this was no longer the case as the vast majority of Germans only reluctantly supported the war. The early period of the war, 1939-41, was ...