WarsofTheWorld The Second World War: 1939 - 1945 | WWII Documentary: PART 1 Posted: January 13, 2025 | Last updated: January 13, 2025 On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ...

The institute played an important part in feeding the post-war world. Several high-yielding and disease-resistant strains of wheat and blight-resistant strains of potato originated there.

Countdown to Victory: The Last Days of War in Europe Day by day, the news got better as the Second World War wound down in Europe. Sixty years ago, CBC Radio brought home reports of retreating ...

The War is the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns.The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every ...

A study of unexploded shells from the second world war has shown that one of the explosives they contain is becoming more sensitive to impacts, meaning it could be set off if they are dropped ...

An official war artist went to Belsen with the Red Cross team to record and reflect their work. We ran recovery homes and additional support to hospitals Throughout the Second World War, properties ...

and in the second half of the century there was little doubt that Britain had lost that prominence to the United States. World War Two had been extraordinarily costly for Britain and her empire ...

At issue was whether the Geneva Conventions—a set of treaties established in the wake of the atrocities of the Second World War—applied to the United States in its treatment of any prisoners ...

One of the last surviving Royal Navy bomb disposal specialists from the Second World War has died at the age of 100. Boyd Salmon, who joined up as a rating, aged 17, went on to be commissioned as ...

Bank archives may still hold secrets about Swiss actions during the Second World War and should be re-examined, especially those of UBS, says Marc Perrenoud, a historian who worked on the Bergier ...