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"I love life, I love people, I love to be with people, I love to entertain," said Don Graves, one of three known living ...
Ukrainian World War Two veterans are using their experience fighting Adolf Hitler’s Nazi army to advise soldiers currently ...
Ten lesser known films from the past century have captured the city just as indelibly as modern classics by the likes of ...
The Prince of Wales told of his son’s interest in learning about the Second World War and a centenarian performed a magic ...
A 100-year-old Royal Air Force veteran accepted the thanks of a nation Monday as Britain paused to mark the 80th anniversary ...
The 100-year-old magnolia tree stood between a five-bedroom stately home and a semi-detached house in Waverley. In a move that has sparked fury in the neighbourhood, the tree was chopped down ...
A hundred years ago, a pandemic swept around the world ... life in Central Europe while it was embroiled in the First World War, but it wasn’t the most bizarre part of this illness.
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A 100-year-old Second World War veteran has recalled “getting a bit squiffy” as he turned 21 amid VE Day celebrations on a Navy ship in ...
Perfectly timed for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, the fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption’s epic narrative of the Hundred Years’ War takes the story from ... head of the largest ...
As Victory in Europe Day is celebrated on May 8, the stories of those who fought in the Red Army for freedom are captured in ...
The 100-year-old veteran shared ... We just got there and the war was over, but we helped people in Hong Kong and the Philippines.” Hardy was 17-years-old when he enlisted.
The commander of the New York Army National Guard’s 42nd Infantry Division, Maj. Gen. Jack James, joined with surviving U.S.