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Bernard has his 90th birthday this week.

Soviet leader Josef Stalin had urged British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to open it as far back as August 1942. According to the interpreter's record of their tense encounter that month in Moscow, Churchill argued this would be premature, insisting that "war was war but not folly, and it...

You should visit France and see the war memorials in every village from the First World war. There were thousands upon thousands that were lost. The German invasion was just 20 years later, so it's unsurprising that they felt it was easier to accept Nazi rule. They had see the total devastation...

My Dad was in the Royal Navy on HMS Qualicombe. They were firing shells over the beach to try and knock out the German gun emplacements and also to prevent German reinforcements getting to the landing beaches. Just recently I received his Arctic convoy medal which the government only decided to...