On December 30, 1922, a Dornier Komet II became the first German aircraft to fly over Britain since World War I, marking ...

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 Sean Kingsley - History Correspondent Diver Chris de Putron inspects the wreck of the ...

The Blitz began on September 7, 1940. Virtually every night for the next eight months and five days, through May 11, 1941, Nazi Germany razed British cities from above, waging an aerial bombing ...

Known as the first true world war, the Seven Years' War reshaped global power across Europe, North America, and beyond. In ...

Winston Churchill was clear. “My dear friends,” he said on May 8th 1945, standing on a balcony in Whitehall to address the cheering crowds below. “This is your hour.” Victory, he said, did not belong ...

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Britain has stopped the export of rare wartime papers that once belonged to national hero Alan Turing, who helped the Allies win World War Two by cracking Nazi Germany's ...

The head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency says Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold ...