When efforts to negotiate a withdrawal fail, Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. May: Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain. June: The Nazis capture ...

The period ended in disaster for the German people. Despite Germany’s early successes, after 1942, World War Two brought rationing, bombing raids and labour shortages. Once the tide of war ...

She was a little girl. Her world was turned upside down. But she maintained her determination and hopefulness,” said friend and author Kristen Arute ...

As a United Press correspondent, Cronkite covered the landings in North Africa and Sicily, the Allied invasion of Normandy and the subsequent battles across France and Germany. He was also a ...

In the case of the Nuremberg war crime trials after WW2 (recreated in Radio 4's drama ... What’s more, by then, NATO needed West Germany as the front line against the Soviet Bloc – German ...