“Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...

100 days in 1940, World War II: Winston Churchill, blitzkrieg and the "Finest Hour". On the May 10th 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — and Germany launched its ...

A British museum has begun the process of lifting the only Nazi bomber to survive the World War II Blitz on London out of its shallow grave -- under 60 feet of water and shifting sands under the ...

The beauty of data visualizations is that they can describe something incomprehensible through data alone — even if that something is a tragedy. During the London Blitz, from October 7, 1940 to June 6 ...

Soon after nightfall on May 12, 1940, German scouts crept through war-torn countryside along the Meuse River, passing blown bridges and searching for a crossing to the western bank. Suddenly they ...

The German invasion of Western Europe has been going for over a week now, and the Neutral and Allied countries are in disarray. The Netherlands, despite putting up fierce resistance on some occasions, ...

Each Christmas, Manchester remembers the anniversary of the bloodiest 48 hours in the city's history - the December 1940 blitz. More than 800 civilians were killed in two nights of intense bombing ...

Behind our houses was Gordeney House, so John and his friend - Brian Baker - used to climb over the wall to... We were told as children that all the bells would ring if invasion was going to happen ...

Dot Gandy aged 12, her sister Renee aged 13 stayed over at Granny White's house; she lived in Devonshire Street, Hulme with her daughter (the girls' Aunt Sally), and their mother, May Gandy. Granny's ...

A historic Coventry venue is inviting afternoon tea lovers to mark a major anniversary in style by hosting a nostalgic 1940s experience filled with music, cake and wartime charm. St Mary’s Guildhall ...

This Christmas crib which survived the bombing of Liverpool by the Luftwaffe 80 years ago has an amazing story to tell. It has been in the family of former ECHO reporter Claire Breithaupt ever since ...