Before the war had started, Britain had a small professional army, sacrificing manpower for superior mobility and technology ...

In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, ...

In the summer of 1940 – after Hitler swept through France and drove the British army out of the European ... a Battle of Britain dogfight in action. WW2: Did the war change life for women?

The Avro Lancaster was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, but was it the best? When one thinks of the Royal ...

To this day, Stevens, who went on to become Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and is now a Lord, believes a covert unit of the British Army called the Force Research Unit (FRU) burnt his ...

A Second World War secret agent who trained allied spies to resist honeytrap plots has been buried with full military honours. Noreen Riols, who died on January 2 aged 98, would test recruits by ...

During World War II, some armies—the British Army, in particular—bolted metal spans to the top of tank chassis and used the resulting “funnies” to rapidly erect bridges across vehicle ...

which have benefited from their location in a fortified basement that housed a British government command center throughout World War II. A colleague and I recently took an audio tour of the spots ...

The British armed forces had been heavily cut back in the 1920s. The British Government was concerned with the weakness of its armed forces. In particular, there was a lack of home defences ...

As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with whichever army promised them personal liberty. The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters ...