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

While their husbands brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers sisters and friends..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

During the third week of February 1944 the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever roun..

'I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this ..

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

In 1940 Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one the nations of Europe had fallen and ..

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany an unlikely band of British ..

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

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

Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..

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

In 1914 the world changed forever when World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to f..

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

The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth famil..