Lt Gen J F R Jacob was chief of staff of the Eastern Command during the 1971 war, retired as the Eastern Army commander and ...

This segment argues that Franklin Roosevelt was moving the United States steadily toward World War II long before Pearl ...

On May 31, 1941, HMS Phoebe returned to Crete after the Admiralty ordered the evacuation stopped, joining HMS Abdiel in a ...

On 14 January this year, army and navy squads faced an unprecedented challenge: one bomb on a Plymouth building site, another floating on a dredger in Exmouth. That afternoon, the clock started tickin ...

The battleship era is officially over, as the United States no longer operates a single one. Here is every class to hit the ...

The National Day of Commemoration originates from the census of 10 October 1941. At the time, the Nazis sought... }} ...

We may only be halfway through the 2020s, but we've already had several incredible World War II movies, including Oppenheimer ...

Marcela Ciubotaru survived two separate Soviet deportation waves before turning two years old, enduring livestock wagons, childhood famine in Kazakhstan, and decades of state-enforced fear before ...

The "anger" to which Abourezk alludes had found expression in an earlier review of God Cried. Written by Roald Dahl and published in the August 1983 issue of the British magazine Literary Review, the ...

Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator who became the first woman to fly solo to Australia from England, is remembered with a blue plaque on her former north London home.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Royal Editor Chris Ship explains that the Sussexes' decision to switch schools was prompted by security fears after they were ...