In August 1940, Italy launched a major invasion of British Somaliland from its colonial base in Ethiopia, opening a new front ...

In late August 1940, the Battle of Britain intensified as the Luftwaffe shifted its attacks toward RAF airfields in an effort ...

A few years ago my mother-in-law, alarmed by a Staffordshire bull terrier that had moved in with our neighbours, suggested ...

Fury erupted after the Imperial War Museum shut The Lord Ashcroft Gallery after 15 years because so few people remember the ...

In June 1940, as France collapsed and Britain faced the prospect of resisting the Nazis alone, Winston Churchill searched for a French leader willing to keep fighting ...

Sir Keir Starmer's failure to send a warship to the Mediterranean until our base in Cyprus was attacked by Iranian drones has ...

There was a doctor in Chicago years ago named Victor Frankenstein, and one of his jobs was finding medical specimens. When ...

These machines are revolutionary ...

Clarence Trotz picked up the baton from alumnus Norman Cameron in continuing to record the history of his alma mater, and has written four volumes from 1940 to 2010. Trotz, now 92, never stopped ...

The lecture that became one of the most consequential speeches in world history took place on March 5, 1946. Churchill came ...

During World War II, British women were factory workers, codebreakers, spies and air raid wardens. How did such roles contribute to the Allies’ victory?

Churchill understood the terrible cost of war. Trump clearly does not - IN FOCUS: The lauded WWII prime minister is often ...