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Watching the ritual May Victory Day parade as a correspondent in Moscow a couple of decades ago, I was always struck by its distinctive mix — a noisy exhibition of modern military power but also a day that harked back to past victories, with Second World War veterans waving forlorn…

A 97-year-old Second World War hero has been granted his wish to be reunited with a Spitfire once again.

Marie Scott and Mildred Schutz served in the British armed forces during the war.

More people are displaced globally now than at any other time since the second world war, millions of them children. Save the Children’s Wonderbooks series is helping kids here to understand the hardships they face – and offering hope for the future

In 1992, in Esher Library southwest of London, England, Josephine Andrews and her mother, Christine, collected blankets to donate to Kurdish refugees of the Gulf War.

40% of people don't know what the Blitz was. 30% are unaware a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

Father and son's stroll along the sands in East Lothian unearths historic bullet casing from the Second World War that was likely fired by RAF gunners stationed at one of the region's famous airfields.

Margaret Anderson was born in the Dumbdykes area and worked in a munitions factory in Bonnyrigg throughout the Second World War, as well as working for the Scottish Motor Traction, a bus and taxi firm in Scotland

An underground tunnel, which was once part of the former Scotland Street Railway Line and former a bunker in the Second World War, was found when a sinkhole opened in Edinburgh