There was a gathering of the ghouls in Moscow yesterday as Russia held its own commemoration of the end of the Second World War, bringing to life the image of an alliance of autocrats taking shape.
The Second World War still looms large in the imagination of Brits - but the winner of a poll to find the nation's most cherished WW2 film might surprise you.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla led the royals including Prince William and Kate in London today as they commemorated the sacrifices of Second World War veterans and their generation.
If you ask people what typified British defiance the most in the Second World War , many of them will tell you it was the Spitfire. So I felt very privileged at being allowed to fly in one, writes HA…
LIVE UPDATES: Follow minute by minute details of Britain's VE Day celebrations on May 8, 1945 as the nation celebrated victory over Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War.
The Second World War in Europe had come to a halt on May 7, 1945, after nearly six years of toil, sacrifice, tragedy and loss. And so that night and on the evening of May 8 - VE Day - Britons celebra…
In evidence of his claims, Hitchens told co-host and Mail columnist Sarah Vine, of his own late father's view of the war, who grew disillusioned years after fighting in the Royal Navy.
Celebrations and parties were almost unheard of for the youngster, born in 1935, who had little memory of anything other than the daily trials of living through the Second World War.