THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the ...

On the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, echoes of tyrannies past shake a continent that is trying to find its ...

The D-Day landings, which took place a year before liberation, marked a pivotal moment during World War Two. It was the ...

I trudged up the Normandy beaches with British Army veterans who had done the same—under fire—over half a century earlier.

Cecil Newton, from the village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, served in 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards during World War 2 and was in the thick of it as the allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy.

Now 102 years old, Monty recalls the moment in 1944 when Sir Winston Churchill came to visit the mobile bakery he was working ...

Mr Keir, who was part of a crew ferrying US troops onto Utah Beach in Normandy during the D-Day invasion in June 1944, is among more than 30 Second World War veterans attending celebrations in ...

or the thousands of tourists and real-world service members from modern-day allied nations who flocked to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. They even stopped off at Utah Beach to visit ...