Traditionally, New Year marks a moment when fresh resolutions are made that anticipate a better tomorrow. During wartime, however, even...

It's clear that the Allies did eventually defeat the Axis powers in WW2, but how and why this came about is still debated - and too...

The charge was made, during WW2 and afterwards, that the Jews put up only passive resistance to their fate, going like lambs to the...

As we contemplate a world in which the status quo is now fragmenting into adversarial power blocs, it's worth reflecting on the...

By mid-October 1940 (84 years ago now), the so-called Battle of Britain had long morphed into what we have come to call the Blitz, a...

It was at the beginning of October 1943 that a drama played out in Denmark which had no parallel in any other German-occupied country in...

It's impossible to consider the Second World War without reaching for statistics. There are a multitude to choose from and the scale of...

One of the more startling statistics to come out of the Pacific War of 1941-45 is this: of the 1.7 million Japanese soldiers recorded as...

On this day in 1948 US President Harry Truman signed off Executive Order 9981, directing the American armed services to desegregate by...

Over the summer months of 1939, a Soviet army commanded by General Zhukov (famous later for becoming the captor of Berlin in 1945) fought...

Britain was on the winning side in both world wars. Yet it remembers them very differently. Partly perhaps because WW1 failed to 'finish...

In the immediate post-war years, people desperately wanted to return to some kind of normality. In keeping with this spirit, the popular...

In the 1990s, at roughly the 50th anniversary point, American perceptions of the Second World War became highly nostalgic and...

Present-day China is unthinkable without the Second World War. In 1937, the Communists led by Mao Tse Tung were confined to an area in...

Today marks the 83rd anniversary of the launch of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. The...

Exactly 80 years ago today, during June and July 1944, while the Allies in Europe struggled to take back Normandy after D-Day, American...

What we might call the 'underground war' - secret agents, resistance cells and partisan activity - has always been a popular field to...

Today the Holocaust is misunderstood. At worst, it is simply equated with the death camp at Auschwitz, which actually killed only 1 in 6...

It's now abundantly clear that more people died of starvation and malnutrition in the Second World War than perished in battle. It's one...

It's obvious that the Second World War was a global conflict, even more so than WW1, yet we still tend to look at it from a national...