The Latest Breaking News from Second World War

Edinburgh Fringe show sets out to tell the tale of the code-breaker whose crucial work on German cyphers helped win the second world war

Until the Second World War, the hopsital was a tuberculosis sanatorium for patients in the south east region of Scotland

Detectorist Tony Ballantine has reunited five people with their wedding rings over the years and has found "everything you can imagine" including 800-year-old coins and shrapnel from the Second World War

The deep history of the long-forgotten MS Pilsudski has been uncovered, tens of years after it sunk just a few miles off the East Yorkshire coast during Second World War

Sunken boat from second world war and at least three sets of human remains found in largest US reservoir – and more could follow

The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the blitz” – the idea of a society that pulled together in the second world war to withstand the bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe with pluck, bravery and humour.

Liverpool MP slams 'racist and coercive' actions of the British state as government report confirms Chinese sailors in Liverpool were forcibly repatriated after Second World War

Military historian whose books took aim at the myths of Britain’s wartime exploits and its political and military leaders

The UK’s record-breaking heatwave made it clear how unprepared much of the country is for extreme weather caused by climate change. There were hundreds of fires reported around the country, making it UK firefighters’ busiest day since the second world war – and just a glimpse of what’s to come.