World War II was marked by its epic battles, which decided the fate of nations and changed the course of history. From Germany's Blitzkrieg attacks on Poland that launched the European campaign to the ...

Smiling pilots crouching atop their planes. Squadrons of bombers soaring above the clouds. Crews taking a break during a training day. These images, recently restored for a book curated by London’s ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On February 4, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Livadia Palace, in the Crimean resort of Yalta, with a single item on the agenda: to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The sheer improbability of the Dunkirk evacuation is laid bare by the expectations of the British Admiralty: secretly, they feared they would only ...

While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...

The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. June 23, 1943, U.S. Army reinforcements land on a beach on Attu Island, part of the ...

BASTOGNE, Belgium — Some of the last living American veterans of World War II on Saturday met with world leaders and many other admirers as they recounted how the Allies braved subfreezing ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — When military history author Bill Sloan sought inspiration for his new book on World War II in the Pacific, he found it in a then-96-year-old combat veteran from upstate New York who ...

Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global tensions escalating, its governor said on Monday it is the ...

Never before seen archive footage of WW2 which has been colourised for the first time. The footage tells the story of the greatest conflict the world has ever known in full colour.