All news on the topic: World War 2

Olga Henderson was interred in a POW camp in Singapore at the age of 9 after her family fled their home in Malaysia following the Japanese invasion during World War II

A three-storey WW2 tower near Woodbridge, Suffolk, has gone on the market as a potential quirky holiday home but the estate agents have not received any bids for it

Medals earned by Flight Lieutenant Raymond Birkett during the Second World War are being auctioned by his family and are expected to make about £2,500

79 years on from the capture of Anne Frank in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, a new book details the heartbreaking story of her final days

The vessel was part of the 800-strong flotilla which helped 300,000 stricken soldiers escape the clutches of Adolf Hitler in 1940, and now a bid is underway to restore it

Phillip Picone was volunteering for the group 'Food Not Bombs' in the city of Houston, Texas, when he was slapped with a ticket and hauled to court over alleged 'health and safety issues'

In 1924, Clarence Birdseye patented the double-belt freezer, which improved the quality of frozen food by cooling it faster - and sparked a kitchen revolution

Captain Tom Moore's daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore built a pool and spa complex at her million-pound home without planning permission and now faces tearing it down

Fred Ames, 100, was a beach commando and fought during the Battle of Anzio where 7,000 allies were killed during the Second World War

A glorious mansion and sprawling 17th century estate has just gone on the market for £6million. It was used a location for family films yet also once the home of a brutal judge - and it could be yours

Pevention is the Government’s role. After 13 years of being run by the self-professed 'party of law and order', how can it still be so easy for a teenager to buy a deadly weapon?

The Paris apartment remained untouched for decades – with its eerie interior left exactly as its 91-year-old resident had left it, as forgotten furniture and even toys gather dust and grime

Great British Bake Off 2016 winner, Candice Brown, poured a pint of 'Lift Off 85', to celebrate 85 years of operation for Luton Airport

Cillian Murphy plays the titular role in Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer, which tells the story of the physicist's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II

A long-awaited study of the future for UK defence notes escalating threats from Moscow while China also poses a long-term challenge along with North Korea and Iran

Nellie Orme has reached the ripe old age of 103 and her birthday will certainly be one to remember

According to official labour market statistics, there were 230 fewer small and medium-sized housebuilders last year as there were in 2010 - as the building of new homes in the UK has fallen

Oppenheimer – whose life has now been turned into a Hollywood movie starring Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr – later claimed that, in the moments after the detonation, he recited a line from Hindu scripture in his mind: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"

Kevin Topham, 95, had been desperate to return to Club X on Newark, Nottinghamshire, one last time when it reopened after a decade as he had met his late wife there in 1949

Taken at London’s Liverpool Street station and first published in The News Chronicle in 1939, it captures the Jewish youngsters on a life-changing journey as they fled Nazi Germany

The head of China's Communist Party's foreign affairs commission made racially tinged comments as he urged Japan and South Korea to 'join hands and cooperate' with the East Asian superpower

Early beneficiaries of our National Health Service recall their marvel at modern medicine - and how Britain was saved from health poverty by the revolutionary concept

The discovery has been hailed "very rare" and the craft are believed to be some of those sent from the UK to the Soviet Union to help fight Nazi Germany when they invaded in 1941

Under a deeply flawed system, they were allowed to load their companies with debt to pay their shareholders billions in dividends

After decades picking up the pieces of the seduction, followed by the betrayal of West Indians by the British government, there is little appetite to mirror the festivities in England