The Latest Breaking News from the Second World War

The former Great British Bake Off judge lived in the “magnificent” Victorian property in Bath from the age of six to 15, during the Second World War

David Cockayne writes: Many theatres built soon after the second world war in the UK seemed to use the format of the cinema

All we’ve heard about for the last week is a) the fact the British Army is now so small that it couldn’t quite fill Old Trafford, b) the threat of conscription, and C) Gen Z’s total disinterest in fighting for their country.

In his new film, Anthony Hopkins plays the real-life hero Sir Nicholas Winton, who was made famous in a landmark episode of Esther Rantzen’s BBC One show ‘That’s Life!’. Decades earlier, he facilitated the rescue of 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Adam White digs into his remarkable story

In the Canadian parliament last year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war.

During the second world war, German forces dropped 28,000 bombs and almost 3,000 V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets on London. Nearly 30,000 people were killed. The damage to the built environment was extensive.

A NEW book will detail how the former chair of Hamilton Accies survived the Gulag and the Second World War to make a successful life in Scotland.

The blockbuster film-maker turned the horrors of the second world war into an Oscar-winning drama that is a public service

Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who translated Adolf Hitler’s will and later became a journalist

It is believed a vehicle drove across a park to hit the tree and memorial plaque honouring Jewish refugees from the Second World War.

Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also came up with a theory where patterns can form just through chemical compounds spreading out (diffusing) and reacting with one another. This became known as reaction-diffusion…