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Second world war

6 June 2024

  • Luke Turner

    Let’s commemorate D-day – but not how Nigel Farage wants us to

    Luke Turner
  • Jake Ruser, 99, sits for a portrait at his home in Philadelphia, PA., Tuesday May 21 2024. Hannah Yoon for The Guardian

    ‘I said many prayers’: D-day veteran on horror and heroism in Normandy

5 June 2024

  • Pictures are shown on a huge screen during the UK's national commemorative event for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, hosted by the Ministry of Defence on Southsea Common in Portsmouth, Hampshire

    D-day commemorations begin for 80th anniversary – in pictures

  • Five men in uniform stand shoulder to shoulder in front of Big Ben

    Stories of D-day veterans: ‘They feared they had lost the war’

  • The king has paid tribute to D-day veterans at a commemorative event in Portsmouth

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    King Charles pays tribute to D-day veterans for 'replacing tyranny with freedom' – video

  • King Charles smiling with a military veteran in a wheelchair.

    ‘Courage and solidarity’: King Charles pays tribute to veterans of D-day

  • ‘I thought I might have to go on without you’: a love story told in 12 D-day letters

  • ‘It is gradually dying away’: D-day veteran keeps story alive 80 years on

  • Holocaust survivors urge young Europeans to vote against far right

4 June 2024

  • Two second world war-era sailers pose onboard a ship.

    Canadian D-day veteran, 100, dies day before return to France for anniversary

  • Man holds up an old photograph next to the Mayflower Pilgrims Memorial in Southampton

    ‘People were ready to move on’: D-day left little mark on key port of Southampton

3 June 2024

  • A bunker at Løkken, western Denmark.

    From the agencies
    The Nazis’ Atlantic wall that failed to prevent D-day

    For the 80th anniversary of the landings, AFP photojournalist Olivier Morin spent three weeks documenting the remnants of the supposedly impregnable defences designed to keep the allies at bay

2 June 2024

  • Roxanne de Basion, with long hair and in a cardigan, sits on a leather arm chair and looks down at the guitar she is playing next to a photographer's light

    ‘I’m bringing his music back to life’: the singer whose grandfather was silenced by the Holocaust

    Singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion is honouring the memory of her brilliant Hungarian ancestor to keep his legacy alive

1 June 2024

  • German prisoners of war arriving in Gosport, Hampshire, UK, June 1944In Gosport, Hampshire, UK: some of 1,096 German prisoners of War after their arrival at Gosport (England) on HM Landing Ship Tank (LST–165). (This was the first transport with prisoners from Normandy. They were interrogated and distributed to various camps according to their classification). Photo, June 1944.

    ‘No one wants a Nazi in their family’: a German prisoner of war, a secret affair and the mystery of my dad’s parentage

    Thousands of Germans were held in camps in Britain after the war – and local women who ‘fraternised’ with them scandalised the nation. Could one of these illicit relationships explain the puzzle at the heart of my family tree?

May 2024

  • Sqn Ldr Mark Long in the cockpit of a plane on the ground

    WWII aircraft grounded for D-day anniversary after fatal Spitfire crash

  • Winston Churchill and Charles De Gaulle

    Revealed: Churchill’s unsent letter that could have changed the course of history

  • Kathleen Byron and David Farrar in The Small Back Room

    The Small Back Room review – boundary-breaking wartime drama from Powell and Pressburger

  • Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke sits at a desk in the light of a desk lamp making notes on a piece of paper

    Bletchley Park codebreaker Joan Clarke honoured with blue plaque

  • ‘Every piece of evidence is vital’: Holocaust survivor calls for victims’ shoes to be salvaged

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war – podcast

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