Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on..

In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..

When FDR Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin gathered outside the Crimean city of Yalta in February 1..

On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to..

Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness ..

In the summer of 1941 bored and eccentric young officer David Stirling came up with a plan that was ..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940 when Winston Ch..

Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

We take summer holidays for granted but back in the 1940s war had gripped Britain. Bombs fell beache..

Kim Philby the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring was the Cold War's most infamous traito..

In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has be..

In the dying months of World War I Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world killing between 50 and..