Victory over japan (vj) a nuclear ending

To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, History of War will be taking a look at some of the key events taking place during each month of the conflict

‘Plink’ – another sugar lump is precariously dropped into a little glass bowl. I’m aged about 10 and my grandfather is patiently and precisely teaching me how to use chopsticks. How he came to use the

Eighty years after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, the resurrection of one of its cities remains remarkable

In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc

When Buckingham Palace was hit by bombs on 15 September 1940, it brought the war to the very front door of King George VI and his wife Elizabeth, the Queen consort. Just over two weeks later, the war

During the early days Operation Barbarossa, Army Group Centre’s rapid advance surrounded hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Białystok-Minsk area. What ensued was a catastrophic defeat for the Soviet defenders