and in the second half of the century there was little doubt that Britain had lost that prominence to the United States. World War Two had been extraordinarily costly for Britain and her empire ...

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

In this episode of Wars of the World, we are going to explore the sounds of four terrifying weapons from the Second World War and examine their impact on the battlefield and the war as a whole.

The Second World War started after Germany attacked Poland in 1939, and refused to withdraw its troops from the country after a final warning from Britain. The British Prime Minister, Neville ...

Each country to ban war has a different reason for doing so, and while inherently symbolic, the impact of these decisions can be groundbreaking ... banning war was required of them following the end ...

LSE Professor of International History Sönke Neitzel specialises in the history of war, especially the First and Second World Wars. In 2001 Neitzel discovered a new source for researching the Third ...

The Second World War had a huge impact on the kitchens, and the stomachs, of millions of British people. Food was ‘a munition of war’ and without it, military forces could not fight on; civilian ...