Following Operation Totalise, an Allied breakthrough from the French town of Caen to just outside the town of Falaise ... leader of the Free French. The war in France was over.

There was no need for any more violence in the Pacific Ocean. But on August 21, a Japanese crew that did not yet know World War II was officially over launched an attack that would be the final ...

By Professor John Charmley. The rows were explosive, the challenges enormous, but he led Britain through the war with unique assurance. By Dr Geoffrey Best. Has an obsession with the Allied ...

The greatest generation deserves only the greatest games, and we’ve compiled a list of the top World War II games to play right now. Wargaming’s flagship free-to-play WW2 game is obsessed with ...

The Marine Corps’ first offensive battle of WWII at Guadalcanal, fought between August 7, 1942, and February 9, 1943, is highlighted. San Diego Zoo welcomes newborn Sumatran tiger cub SpaceX ...

T he Battle of the Atlantic is one of the largest theatres of World War II, which defined how the war was to be conducted ...

It’s a tricky question to answer since there’s been a long history of war games here in the world of PC gaming. Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re re-fighting WW2 or blowing ...

I grew up knowing that my father had a hero cousin, a doctor Lipmann Kessel who served in the Second World War. Called “Lippy” by those close to him, he’d been a surgeon in the army and in ...

‘They discriminated against us, cursed at us, just because we were refugees … I was nine—the war wasn’t my fault ... that shaped the outcome of WWII. Why it’s important to ...

returned home last month after nearly eight decades Ellen Wexler In the final weeks of World War II, a Japanese torpedo sank an American heavy cruiser. Only 316 of the 900 sailors who survived the ...

Nights in the trenches, rusks, tinned food, vodka, shell shock, injuries, death, courage, duty - stories from the Great Fatherland War often share the same horrific details. All those lucky enough ...

People are tired of war. The army is struggling to mobilise and train enough troops to hold the line, let alone retake territory. There is a growing gap between the total victory many Ukrainians ...