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

If you’ve ever visited Normandy, where the American-led freedom crusade launched ... to commune with our resting heroes in ...

"I've come to see my friends who didn't come home," says Ken, as he pauses at a row of white headstones. Hermanville War ...

Peter Wellman made a final visit last year to see the abandoned coastal village, where he was born and brought up. Tyneham in ...

Mad Piper” Bill Millin, was the lone Scottish bagpiper who blasted out Scottish tunes as commandos fought to liberate the ...

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior ...

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

But life took a sharp turn when World War II came along, Mullins joined the army and ended up in the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles," where, at just 19, he served in the Allies' D-Day ...

The ferry from Portsmouth to Caen is the most atmospheric way to visit the D-Day battlefields, if not always the most ...

“As a young boy growing up in Northern Virginia, I had a neighbor, Lloyd Johnson, who stormed the beaches of Normandy and lost an eye and part of his foot stepping on a landmine as he assaulted ...