Rishi Sharma is on a race. Specifically, he is on a race against time. Every day, about 430 American World War II Veterans die, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Every day, Sharma tries ...

His 1998 epic war film, Saving Private Ryan, is set in 1944 in Normandy during the Second World War and follows a group of soldiers on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan (played by Matt ...

THE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, is ...

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Can "anything new be said about the Second World War", asked Adam Sisman in The Observer. "Unexpectedly the answer is yes." Among the "surprising facts" I learnt from this "revelatory book" are that ...

World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, and is a topic that is popular in the media. The primary reasons for this are, of course, the scale of it, and the fact that there was a ...

This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and security. Sign up for The War Room. Richard Cockett, our news editor, ...

The We Have Ways Fest has revealed its 2026 dates. The Second World War-themed festival, the UK’s No.1 Second World War history festival, will take place from September 11 to September 13, 2026, at ...