It was the summer of 1940, and the vicious Nazis were seemingly closing in on the United Kingdom. The British Army was highly ...

In 1944, during the last major German offensive - the Battle of the Bulge, German troops famously disguised themselves as ...

From 1942 through till 1945, the 14th Army fought its way into Burma, but its exploits were buried under other Allied ...

Charlotte "Betty" Webb worked at Bletchley Park, the famous British code-breaking center, where she was responsible for ...

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

During WW2, these professions included baking ... 138,00 personnel with about 75,000 being enlisted in the British Army. Former British Army officer and Tory MP for Bournemouth East Tobias ...

World War I and World War II. (Wikimedia Commons) The British wisely fancied him. During four decades of service that saw him receive more than 30 military medals, Carton de Wiart transformed ...

General Keith Kellogg proposed the division of Ukraine into zones, with British, French and Russian troops on the ground.

A Holocaust survivor has said it is "up to us to guard against" a repetition of the World War II atrocity, 80 years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The last European airborne operation of World War Two was "testament to the skills of the RAF crews" based at Essex and ...

Incredibly, it involved a British submarine planting a dead military body carrying fake ... a major turning point in World War II. That story, arguably British intelligence’s finest hour ...

CBS News' Edward R. Murrow was shocked by what he saw at the just-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Work continues to ensure the world never forgets.