Fighting on

On the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan, Charles Harris looks back at the 14th Army’s extraordinary campaign and the remarkable characters who shaped it

Paris Confidence vote: France seemed to be heading ...

At the climax of fighting in the Pacific, the USA revealed its ultimate weapon and ushered in a new era of warfare

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

At the end of WWII the Japanese Imperial Army Air Force was conscripted into the Royal Air Force in Southeast Asia

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York