Nazi Germany overran France and forced the British army to evacuate at Dunkirk. Severely lacking in military equipment, Britain and her empire now stood alone against Adolf Hitler's forces.

Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

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

The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link ... then-British prime minister Winston Churchill famously stood before the British House of Commons to pay ...

Hamburg was, literally, a dry run for what came later; the aim was to maximise the number of barbecued civilians by, among ...

Send it off tonight.’” During the Battle of Britain, Churchill said the Americans’ “morale was very good—in applauding the valiant deeds done by others!” A week before Roosevelt was re ...

Two years later, he was among the men known as "The Few", coined by Winston Churchill to describe Britain's Battle of Britain pilots. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was saddened to ...

The story of the Second World War in pictures, from the Blitz to Berlin. Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2 ...

Using his memories, as well as the recollections of the men who were there, Mendoza has crafted a taut, harrowing reenactment that initially brings to mind the adage that war can best be described as ...

He was a pilot in the Battle of Britain at age 21. Those who fought in the three-and-a-half-month battle came to be known as “The Few,” following on then PM, Sir Winston Churchill.