In ‘Operation Biting,’ Max Hastings narrates a daring action by British special forces that could have come from the pen of ...

When Winston Churchill christened the clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in 1940, Britain had spent the previous decade appeasing Nazi Germany. In the House of Commons, Churchill gave ...

Winston Churchill, 8 May 1945, ... Military training remained a defining and inescapable feature for students. Derek Wilkes (Christ’s, 1940s) recalled parading in naval uniform at St Catharine’s ...

British royal family watches military parade marking ... struck at midday and extracts from wartime leader Winston Churchill’s VE Day ... King Charles wore a Naval No.1 uniform with no ...

The words of Sir Winston Churchill’s 1945 victory speech, ... Charles wore the naval No.1 dress uniform to see Monday’s military procession and flypast in central London to kick off four days ...

Sir Winston Churchill’s victory speech, a military procession, a flypast and street parties are part of the build-up to May 8.

On the day before peace in Europe was announced, my grandfather Winston Churchill sent an urgent communique to the Ministry of Food. It was imperative, he warned, that London must not run out of beer.

For the last three years, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been playing the role of a Ukrainian Winston Churchill, confidently defending his country with Western support. Now, Donald Trump has flipped the ...

Winston Churchill made a political statement by wearing a wartime onesie he called a “siren suit,” which could be quickly donned and zipped up during an air raid siren. The world ate it up.

Winston Churchill was Prime Minister from 1940-45 and 1951-55. Rather than waiting for the USSR to rebuild, rearm, and acquire its own atomic arsenal, Churchill thought the U.S. should use its ...

Winston Churchill's earliest memory, at age three or four, involved a large collection of toy soldiers in a military scene.Churchill recounted the remembrance in book on his early childhood: "I ...