"History is the life of nations and of humanity," In War and Peace, the great writer Leo Tolstoy observed. This year marks ...

As the nation commemorates the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, a Portsmouth family shares the remarkable story of ...

Thursday is the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe - VE Day 80 - a day which the Imperial War Museum (IWM) affirms ...

After years of restoration work, the Battleship Texas Foundation is opening the ship for two-hour tours of areas that played ...

Ruth Bourne's war work was so secretive not even her own parents knew about it - but while they saw her as a giggly teen, she ...

A 100-year-old VE Day veteran has recalled the “jolly” moment she learned of the German surrender. Ruth Barnwell, from Putney ...

Bestselling novelist Jennifer Coburn will meet fans and discuss her latest title, "The Girls of the Glimmer Factory," at Royalton Hartland Community Library at 2 p.m. on Monday. It’ll be Coburn’s ...

Seven weeks into the new siege, as the UN World Food Program announced that border closings had caused all of its food stocks in Gaza to run out, Moshe Saada, a Knesset member from Prime Minister ...

The King and the Royal family have gathered on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as they watched a VE Day flypast. Charles and ...

Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 ...

Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union recognizes its Victory Day on May 9 after having a second set of surrender ...