The Latest Breaking News from the Second World War

Lucy Caldwell scooped the £25,000 prize for her novel These Days set during air strikes on Belfast during the Second World War.

Silvio Berlusconi, who has died at the age of 86, was born into a middle-class family in Milan, a city heavily affected by the second world war. He attended a private school belonging to a religious order, and eventually graduated with distinction in law in 1961, specialising in advertising contracts,…

Letter: Mary Scobie’s mother learnt from the nuns at her convent school how to make the most of limited rations during the second world war

Cases haven't been this high since the Second World War

With gonorrhoea diagnoses the highest on record, and syphilis the highest since just after the second world war, sexually transmitted infections are seemingly on the up across England with some surprising areas recording the sharpest increases in infections

The number of diagnosed cases is at the highest level since just after the Second World War

The Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina was opened in 1965 to commemorate the Yugoslav partisans of Mostar who were killed during the second world war

The facility, discovered Anda in Heilongjiang province, was manned by the notorious Unit 731 in the Second World War who conducted vile experiments on Chinese prisoners

The wartime leader gave the half-smoked cigar to Hugh Stonehewer-Bird in 1944 and it has been preserved in a glass jar ever since.

Liverpool hosted a celebration of the Allies’ victory in the the longest continued military operation of the Second World War.

Historian who brought to light the important role of rural communities in the French resistance during the second world war