Major Charles 'Pat' Riley, who was played by actor Jacob Ifan in the hit BBC series SAS: Rogue Heroes, carried the weapon on missions against Hitler's forces. It has emerged for sale.
Dutch sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen blew up bridges and railway tracks with dynamite, smuggled Jewish children out of concentration camps and executed as many Nazis as they could.
A new two-part Channel 4 documentary reveals the extent of Claude Cahun's bravery resisting the Nazis in the occupied Channel Islands during the Second World War
A fleet commemorating the 85th anniversary of the heroic effort to save Allied soldiers from incoming German troops had to make way for an unlikely guest.
A fleet of 66 vessels set sail from Ramsgate, Kent, to commemorate Operation Dynamo, which saw the 'Little Ships' rescue 300,000 Allied soldiers over 10 days in 1940.
The papers, which include the wartime codebreaker's personal signed copy of his 1938 PhD dissertation, were found in the loft of the sister of his best friend
Peter Wellman made a final visit last year to see the abandoned coastal village, where he was born and brought up. Tyneham in Dorset was evacuated just before Christmas in 1943.
Hundreds gathered in Prague’s Nusle district on Thursday to commemorate VE Day with a large-scale reenactment of the 1945 Prague Uprising, featuring period uniforms, authentic weapons, and WWII milit…