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Australians remembered for role in D-Day landings

Australian servicemen played a small but important role in the D-Day landings 80 years ago, which turned the tide of the Second World War in Europe.

AAP · Jun 4, 2024

Watch as World War II veterans leave for France ahead of D-Day 80th anniversary

Watch as Second World War veterans leave for France on Tuesday 4 June, ahead of the D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations in Normandy.

The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2024

Russia not invited to D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations in France

Russia will not be invited to events marking the 80th anniversary of the Second World War's D-Day landings next Thursday given its war of aggression against Ukraine, the French presidency has announced.

Radio France Internationale · May 31, 2024

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Best books about the Second World War to read this year

From memoirs and biographies to historical deep dives into the war’s most brutal battles, these are some of the best books about WWII

Evening Standard · May 17, 2024

Maurice el Médioni obituary

Versatile Algerian pianist and songwriter who transformed the country’s popular music after the second world war

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2024

World War II tunnel found in Kanchanaburi

A 35 metre-long man-made escape tunnel built during the Second World War has been discovered in Kanchanaburi.

Bangkok Post · Apr 1, 2024

British Museum told of unexploded bomb risk on Bloomsbury site amid energy centre plans

There is ‘medium risk’ of unexploded Second World War bombs, a survey found

Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2024

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The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, wins Oscar for best animation

Master Japanese director wins his second Oscar for story of a young boy searching for his mother during the second world war

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2024

’The New Look’ costume designer on recreating Christian Dior’s seminal silhouettes

‘The New Look’ on Apple TV+ traces the creation of Christian Dior’s defining silhouettes against the backdrop of the Second World War. Costume designer Karen Muller Serreau tells Wallpaper* how she recreated the era

Wallpaper · Mar 5, 2024

Nicola Trahan obituary

Member of the French resistance who served as a courier behind enemy lines during the second world war

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024

Plymouth bomb: device to be detonated tonight or tomorrow, say police – as it happened

Second world war bomb now in the water by Plymouth after its removal from a garden

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

Defiant Ben Stokes insists England can still win India series despite one of heaviest defeats in Test history

England are 2-1 down after slumping to their heaviest Test defeat in terms of runs since the Second World War

Evening Standard · Feb 18, 2024

Mary Berry's childhood home for sale for £2.8 million

The former Great British Bake Off judge lived in the “magnificent” Victorian property in Bath from the age of six to 15, during the Second World War

Evening Standard · Feb 17, 2024

Letter: Richard Pilbrow obituary

David Cockayne writes: Many theatres built soon after the second world war in the UK seemed to use the format of the cinema

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2024

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Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2024

OPINION - If you can't recall the Second World War and its long tail then you won't get the threat of a Third World War

All we’ve heard about for the last week is a) the fact the British Army is now so small that it couldn’t quite fill Old Trafford, b) the threat of conscription, and C) Gen Z’s total disinterest in fighting for their country.

Total Film · Jan 25, 2024

Masters of the Air cast talk getting into the headspace of "guys who saved the world"

Exclusive: Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, and Callum Turner talk playing real-life Second World War pilots in Masters of the Air

The Independent UK · Jan 7, 2024

One Life: The true story of Jewish heroism behind the Anthony Hopkins tearjerker

In his new film, Anthony Hopkins plays the real-life hero Sir Nicholas Winton, who was made famous in a landmark episode of Esther Rantzen’s BBC One show ‘That’s Life!’. Decades earlier, he facilitated the rescue of 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Adam White digs into his remarkable story

The Conversation · Jan 4, 2024

Australia is still reckoning with a shameful legacy: the resettlement of suspected war criminals after WWII

In the Canadian parliament last year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war.

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The Conversation · Jan 3, 2024

How second world war bomb rubble was used to make 135 football pitches in east London

During the second world war, German forces dropped 28,000 bombs and almost 3,000 V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets on London. Nearly 30,000 people were killed. The damage to the built environment was extensive.

Evening Standard · Dec 26, 2023

Famous Marylebone building known as "spy corner" where SOE agents were trained sold for £3m

A Marylebone office building that served as a secret Second World War training centre for spies preparing to be dropped into Nazi occupied France has been sold for around £3 million.

The National (Scotland) · Dec 17, 2023

From the wartime Gulag to becoming chair of Hamilton Accies

A NEW book will detail how the former chair of Hamilton Accies survived the Gulag and the Second World War to make a successful life in Scotland.

The Guardian - US · Dec 15, 2023

Schindler’s List at 30: Spielberg’s Holocaust drama is as essential as ever

The blockbuster film-maker turned the horrors of the second world war into an Oscar-winning drama that is a public service

The Conversation · Dec 15, 2023

The Shepherd: Disney's ghostly new Christmas tale evokes the eerie qualities of Britain's abandoned second world war airfields

From Charles Dickens to M.R. James, Christmas has a long association with ghost stories. In The Shepherd – part of Disney+’s festive fare for this year – we have an evocative addition to the genre.

Evening Standard · Dec 8, 2023

Secret WWII tunnels set to surface on London stock market

The business planning to turn a secret network of Second World War tunnels under Holborn into a major new visitor attraction has made the first preparations for a London stock market listing, the Standard has learned.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2023

Rena Stewart obituary

Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who translated Adolf Hitler’s will and later became a journalist

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