A new film dramatises the rescue during WW2 of hundreds of British POWs from the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese cargo liner. The ...

It was the end of the line for the Allies. By May 20, 1940, German Panzer divisions had thundered into Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme River, slicing through Allied lines and corralling the troops ...

British troops led by an eccentric genius. With their distinctive slouch hats, the Chindits were the highly trained special ...

Described as "extraordinary and rare", the 47-page document details how the Channel Islands were liberated from Nazi rule by ...

On July Fourth, actor Kurt Russell visited a small museum in Massachusetts dedicated to his ancestor, who was killed by British soldiers 250 years ago.