LONDON (AP) — John Goldsmith was too young to fight in World War II, but he remembers the rationing, the blackouts and the bombs that devastated his neighborhood in east London. And he remembers the ...

Imagine a very different end to the Second World War. Instead of the US dropping the world's first atomic bombs on Japan, it was the Japanese hammering London with the devastating new weapon. In 1945, ...

“Advance Britannia”, read the headline of The Evening Standard on this day 80 years ago. Each corner of the paper was emblazoned with “VE-Day, Victory Edition” to mark victory in Europe after six ...

On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while later the sirens rang out again indicating that there was no danger and ...

Police have evacuated a number of streets in central London after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered. The device was found near Soho’s Dean Street by construction workers and police were ...

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