the Carthaginian general Hannibal mustering his downcast troops during their brazen invasion of the Roman Republic at the start of the Second Punic War. On Allen’s left, a cutting wind scythes ...

OTTAWA, ON, May 2, 2025 /CNW/ - To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Canadian War Museum invites visitors into a moving journey through the untold post-war stories ...

The researchers even found a pair of close relatives (ca. second cousins) bridging the Mediterranean, one buried in a North ...

Second World War veterans, aged from 98 to 104 years old, are to meet the King at a Buckingham Palace tea party in a special event to help mark VE Day, the Royal British Legion has said.

What is it about the Second World War? As a crime writer, it’s often struck me as odd that although most people would be disgusted by a real murder – if it were to take place outside their ...

The nation will show how thankful it is during events to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, the Prime Minister wrote. As the nation falls silent on Thursday ...

Can "anything new be said about the Second World War", asked Adam Sisman in The Observer. "Unexpectedly the answer is yes." Among the "surprising facts" I learnt from this "revelatory book" are ...

Dawn Bowie's father was a veteran of the Second World War and returned to Europe in 1995 for the 50th anniversary commemorations of the end of the war. "That was his first time returning to France ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine. The development, according to Newsweek, is to commemorate and mark the 80-year anniversary of the Second World War.

The voices of people who lived through the Second World War in Leicester can now be heard on a website. The exhibition has been set up in time for the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Thursday ...

The art of deception, as old as war itself, can garner astonishment when one side’s competence enables it to pull off an audacious plan. Warfighters can exploit the electromagnetic spectrum to deceive ...