Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War Two.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Stirling, a legend from the Second World War and founder of the Special Air Service (SAS), had one hell of a story to tell.
In 2016, a mysterious aircraft was discovered underwater at a depth of 85 metres off the coast of a tiny island south of Sicily.
Volcanic activity in the sea around Japan’s Ogasawara Islands has lifted sunken “ghost ships” from the depths of the ocean.
War movie fans will want to add ‘Greyhound’ to their list, with the trailer coming out earlier this week.
You might be shocked to learn that there was actually colour film back in World War II times, and some of the snaps are both beautiful and poignant.
Fury is a simple film masquerading as a complex animal. Writer-director David Ayer presents a cocky yet typical platoon war movie as a bunch of characters band together to form, storm and norm again as a new recruit gets initiated. The difference being that instead of being sent to Hell on amphibious landing craft, we’re living, […]
The queen of fashion and scent, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, had another pastime whilst she worked on her perfumes – being a spy for the Nazis. Who would have thunk? Definitely something interesting to add to high school history lessons.
A teen who took a happy Auschwitz selfie say it was taken out of context and wants everyone to leave her alone.
Leon Gersten is a 79 year-old holocaust survivor. Before his village in Poland was liberated by the soviet army, Gersten managed to survive thanks only to one man – Czeslaw Polziec.
Controversy is raging on both sides of the Atlantic over a British publisher’s plan to reprint Adolf Hitler’s anti-semitic manifesto, Mein Kampf, in German for the first time since the end of the Second World War.