In the early hours of 30 April, 1943, the most audacious hoax of World War Two has just got underway. Its code-name - Operation Mincemeat.

It was one of the most audacious missions of the Second World War – a tramp’s body disguised as a British officer to deceive ...

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Thursday, 11 September) is Dunkirk, the 1958 World War II epic starring John Mills.

Andrew Borthwick served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and, as a member of the British military’s elite Rifles Regiment, faced some of the heaviest fighting in both wars. Borthwick retired as a ...

Interestingly, it was the Kriegsmarine, with their larger force, that was on the attack—meaning that many of the advantages should have gone to them. British warships were charged with defending ...

Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...

In the midst of the Falklands War, British sailors hunting for ARA San Luis launched ordnance at the sonar and radar signals of whales, wrecks, and even flocks of seagulls — anything that might have ...

Historian Dan Snow reviews some of his favourite World War Two movies from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Dan begins with a review of 'Guns of Navarone' (1961), starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and ...

The United Kingdom’s latest Strategic Defense Review rightly focuses London’s efforts on its most important threats—but there is little chance it will succeed in its aims. Following the release of the ...

The British navy said Thursday it tracked a Russian submarine navigating through the English Channel for three days, as it steps up efforts to police its seas against such threats. A British naval ...

The United States Navy is the most powerful in history. For decades, it has dominated the seas, and at the heart of that domination, at least through World War II, was the battleship. But today, the U ...