ORTONA, ITALY 20-27 DECEMBER 1943

The recent celebrations of VE Day may have been a time of memories of the end of World War Two for many but there was one large group of people who may have had their hopes of what VE Day meant dashed

A prolonged conflict, a modified Treaty of Versailles and no League of Nations may have transpired without direct American involvement

The jungle warfare in the Far East was both a tactical and political challenge for British forces in WWII

Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge

The worst loss of life among animals during the Second World War occurred before a single bomb had dropped on Great Britain. Official notices of advice to the public on how to prepare for air raids we