“we sang, we danced and we all held hands”

The fighting in Europe was over, but lifting up a shattered nation would be a battle of a different kind

This year marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The conflict is rapidly fading from living memory as the last survivors die, and 2025 has seen the final surviving Battle of Britain pil

THE STRUGGLE FOR MEMORY

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

On 21 October 1805, smoke filled the skies over the seas west of Cape Trafalgar, a headland in the Province of Cádiz in the southwest of Spain, as a fierce battle raged. After nearly five hours of int