The image of a London firefighter atop a long ladder, spraying water at the towering flames licking the night sky, has become ...

It was the day when peace broke out across Europe, when a war-weary country threw off the shackles of fear on their great day ...

First Lieutenant Ralph Emberg flew a P-40 Warhawk on a combat escort mission over the Pacific. Halfway through, five planes were forced to turn back due to fuel issues - cutting the protective ...

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki cost at least 200,000 lives but almost certainly saved many millions more and brought ...

The actor who played the wartime Prime Minister in the film The King's Speech commenced the celebrations by reading an ...