The Latest Breaking News from Second World War

GDP rose 7.5% across last year but contracted by 0.2% in December as Omicron dented consumer spending

A new history walk honours the hundreds who fled Nazi persecution in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic during the Holocaust to build new lives in Scotland.

Seventy years ago on February 6, the Queen - aged just 25 - became monarch of a nation still recovering from the upheavals of the Second World War

The pair's bodies were discovered on remote farmland almost 80 years after they died

A collection of images from the 60s show a city in transformation, as people up and down the country came out the other end of a struggle to recover from the Second World War.

A 72-year-old man was arrested in connection with the discovery, but the investigation has now ended without any charges being brought.

The Second World War veteran who raised £38.9m for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday, died on February 2 last year

"I wanted to save it, particularly as it is such a rare and highly visual landmark of the war-time Home Front.”

Journalist, photographer, author and professor Howard W. French’s Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, is the most recent in a long career of thoughtful and significant literary and journalistic interventions. It demands an account of modernity that reckons…