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

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ORTONA, ITALY 20-27 DECEMBER 1943

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

In 1945, the Allies were ready with a daring amphibious operation to liberate Jersey and Guernsey by force

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