D-Day marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War, a period of our history captured on screen in all its guts and ...

The day the Second ... after the war was far more comfortable than the years preceding it. Jim experienced extreme poverty before World War Two and joined the Army as a part time soldier when ...

The German airforce dropped 30,000 bombs, killing 227 people. 300,000 British soldiers were killed in the Second World War, and 15,000 of those were Welsh. One of the main impacts of the Blitz was ...

Most British, Commonwealth, and even Imperial troops were more or less citizen-soldiers, British forces were often ... A volume in the Cambridge series “Armies of the Second World War”, Fighting the ...

Royal British Legion, British Evacuees Association and the Commonwealth War ... military aircraft will be held, poppies will ...

VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...