Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

It's almost 80 years since the end of World War Two, during which Orkney became home to hundreds of Italian prisoners of war.

The period drama that sees Luca Marinelli transform into the Italian wartime dictator, Benito Mussolini is available to watch ...

It's almost 80 years since the end of World War Two, during which Orkney became home to hundreds of Italian prisoners of ... In 1939, the British battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a Nazi ...

The second world war marked a turning point in the history of childhood. To train young people to build peace, authorities ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis ... the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 2nd and 41st British Commandos. On July 10, 1943, the Rangers and members ...

That geophysical trait and Malta’s prime Mediterranean location also led the nation to play an instrumental role in Allied WWII operations ... to show how the British starting in 1940 worked ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.