The Latest Breaking News from Second World War

Each dance performed on Strictly Come Dancing has a fascinating backstory, from the Waltz to the Charleston, which includes racial tensions, the Second World War, brothels and a famous US pilot

Volodymyr Zelensky has been on his travels this week, leaving Ukraine for the first time since the invasion to fly to the US to meet with Joe Biden and address a joint sitting of Congress. The Ukrainian president impressed with his Churchillian tone, comparing his country’s defiance of Russia’s war…

Imber in Wiltshire was cleared by allied forces during the Second World War to make way for training exercises for D-Day

US welcomes doubling of military spending but critics express unease over abandoning seven decades of pacifism

Johnson was a bomb-aimer in squadron that destroyed German dams during second world war

Newcastle has received a gift of a Christmas tree from the city of Bergen in Norway to symbolise its gratitude to Newcastle for its support and friendship during the Second World War for over 70 years

After Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, this is expected to be the hardest winter in Ukraine since the second world war

There are plans to name buildings after some of the important figures stationed there during the war

Danville Neil attacked Second World War veteran William Bryan and widow Anne Castle during a break-in at their east London home.

The Prime Minister is considering barring students from overseas unless they are awarded a place at an elite university after official figures shows the highest level of net migration since the Second World War

Von Ribbentrop was instrumental to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, which triggered the start of the Second World War