5+ hour, 41+ min ago  (131+ words) Explore how major events were captured on The Independent's front pages Explore how major events were captured on The Independent's front pages In Britain, newly released files reveal a wartime Nazi spy network operating on home soil " and a cunning…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (218+ words) The previously unknown images, which surfaced on an online sale site, offer a potentially unprecedented visual record of a notorious wartime atrocity. The pictures, which appeared on eBay over the weekend, reportedly show the men being led to their deaths…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (780+ words) Ray says that he had thought he and Jane could not be together A collection of over 200 intimate love letters, chronicling a couple's courtship and marriage during the Second World War, is now digitally accessible through the Nashville Public Library....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (543+ words) One of Scotland's last surviving D-Day veterans, who played a key role in the Allied landings as part of the Royal Navy, has died aged 100. Albert Lamond's family have spoken of their pride in the centenarian, who never thought of…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (597+ words) Tributes remember him as a man of "profound service and courage" Stan Ford, a D-Day veteran who survived the Normandy landings, has died at the age of 100. Mr Ford, from Bath, was lauded by the veterans" community he worked alongside…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (670+ words) Seven Japanese American soldiers were promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony Monday, eight decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II despite having been branded "enemy aliens." The seven were students at the University of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (113+ words) Family faces bill of up to "20k to bring traveller's body home from Vietnam - British tourist Ryan Hutchinson, 43, died in a motorbike crash in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 19 January. - The Hull man did not have travel insurance at the time of the…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (128+ words) Trump's Afghanistan claim dishonours war dead " here's the truth British veteran who lost two limbs in Afghanistan "is proof Trump is wrong" - British military veteran Ben McBean criticised Donald Trump's "insulting" claims that UK troops in Afghanistan stayed off the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1029+ words) Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence during the Aug. 9, 1945, bombing is little known, and family and researchers have…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (900+ words) Visitors to a US military cemetery in the southern Netherlands have voiced strong objections after two displays honouring Black troops, instrumental in liberating Europe from the Nazis, were removed. The American Battle Monuments Commission, a US government agency, took down…...