World War 2

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Balbir Singh pictured (l) in London in 1948 with Indian High Commissioner Krishna Menon and in Melbourne in 1956, leading the team to another gold Indian sport is mourning the loss of one of its greatest heroes - hockey player Balbir Singh - who…

Image copyright Moscow Zoo Image caption Saturn escaped from Berlin Zoo when it was bombed - but he didn't belong to Hitler An alligator who survived World War Two in Berlin and was rumoured - wrongly - to have belonged to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has died in Moscow Zoo."Yesterday…

For those with even a passing interest in the Second World War, the name Colin Gubbins is synonymous with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). This is not surprising as from its creation in late 1940 at Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s command ‘to set Europe ablaze’, Gubbins was the driving force…

Credit: Carlos Saba In 1981, the US government publicly accused Soviet-backed forces in southeast Asia of waging toxin warfare and violating their legal obligations under the 1925 Geneva Protocol and 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. It alleged that aircraft dispersed ‘yellow rain’ containing mycotoxins that were “not indigenous to the region”.…

Credit: Carlos Saba In 1981, the US government publicly accused Soviet-backed forces in southeast Asia of waging toxin warfare and violating their legal obligations under the 1925 Geneva Protocol and 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. It alleged that aircraft dispersed ‘yellow rain’ containing mycotoxins that were “not indigenous to the region”.…

2K Games and Hangar 13 have officially unveiled the full Mafia: Trilogy today. 2K Games previously announced the collection in a short teaser, and a leak online tipped the internet off about “Definitive Editions” for Mafia 1, 2, and 3.The first Mafia has been completely remade from the ground-up. The…

By Adam Vaughan The lockdown has seen a reduction in car journeysDavid McNew/Getty ImagesGlobal carbon emissions are likely to see their steepest fall this year since the second world war, according to researchers who say coronavirus lockdown measures have already cut them by nearly a fifth. But the team warns…

In Masters and Commanders Andrew Roberts describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. The book attempts to give answers to key questions regarding allied strategy based on the personalities and relationships between two political masters – Winston Churchill and Franklin…

Air-to-air combat or “dogfighting” was once a very personal affair. Pilots of the First and Second World War had to get so close to land a hit with their guns that it wasn’t uncommon for altercations to end in a mid-air collision. But by the 1960s, guided missile technology had…

Second World War midwife's patient notes and text books are uncovered by her family a decade after her death - including details on home births and a guide to folding hospital sheetsCharlotte Turnbull trained as a midwife in the UK and moved to Canada in 1936She kept notes on every…