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

The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened beyo..

On April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking..

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

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

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

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

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For over six decades Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those y..

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Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..