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During the second world war there were notable exceptions to the at times slavish patriotic devotion the press showed to the government line. Weekly political titles such as New Statesman and Nation, the Spectator and the Economist challenged government policy more consistently than daily newspapers.

Craig Dunderdale had an affair with an American GI during the Second World War and was forced to put him up for adoption, but after 46 years of searching he's found his half-siblings

Ted Nobbs, 83, and brother Geoff, 79, have spent more than seven decades 10,000 miles apart after their family was split up at the end of the Second World War

Germany’s government has said it will rebuff any efforts from Warsaw to seek recompense

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev last night marks the end of an extraordinary time in world history, when the apparently inexorable changes that followed the Second World War were undone. He was the man who, more than anyone, drew back the Iron Curtain.

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

Six months into Russia's invasion, Ukrainian officials are drawing up plans to make sure Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top military commanders will be tried for launching the war. The plan for a special international tribunal to investigate Russia's alleged "crime of aggression" is being spearheaded by Andrii Smirnov,…

The Second World War’s deadliest battle – and one of the most brutal of all time – started on August 23, 1942, when Adolf Hitler’s forces went all out to seize the city bearing Joseph Stalin’s name. If ever a battle was like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object,…

Peggy Terry, who served under her maiden name of Margaret Potter, was a Leading Aircraftwoman and during an 18-month stint at RAF Coningsby towards the end of the war and helped service the Lancaster bombers

Once home to Clark Gable’s air squadron, the Wilding Airfield in Northamptonshire now has two cabins immersed in nature, as well as the relics of war

Susannah Dickey’s vivid novel about an obsessive friendship; a colourful hymn to the power of social change; and the weighty story of a second world war unit