Speaking fluent French, she joined the Special Operations Executive, which was based at Beaulieu in the New Forest. At only 18, the glamorous youngster would seduce recruits at a hotel and see if ...

hotels and shops. Readers will find New Orleans tourist mainstays from Cafe du Monde to the National World War II Museum, Preservation Hall concerts and plantation tours. A French perspective ...

the French Croix de Guerre with Palm; France's highest military and civilian honor, the Legion d'Honneur; awards for the ...

Walking through New Orleans’s National WW II Museum, you could be forgiven for thinking the Axis powers were defeated ...

A son has spoken of his pride after his late father was honoured for his Second World War service, during which he was working in General Eisenhower's signals room at the moment of the German ...

“Recording Evil,” a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in World War II, has started filming across three continents. The documentary was commissioned by Israel’s ...

He was involved in both the European and Pacific theaters during World War II, which included the landing at Normandy. He spent 27 years in the military, and was awarded the Bronze Star for ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Relatives of a World War II hero who thought their family member was "just a cook" were stunned to discover he was part of a secretive unit. Captain Leslie Scott's collection of Special Allied ...

WW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle of Britain? documentWW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle of Britain? The Battle of Britain was a pivotal moment in World War Two ...

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...