In early 1940 the Char B1 was considered one of the most formidable tanks in the world, yet within months it became a symbol of France’s defeat. This episode examines how interwar politics, defensive ...

Traditionally, younger actresses have been favoured by the Oscars – but as BBC research shows, that's changing. Is it a sign ...

Nancy Wake did not like killing people. But in wartime, she once told an interviewer, “I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.” Ms. Wake, a ...

On May 10 and 11, 1940, Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg as Fall Gelb begins, using airborne assaults like Eben Emael to break open the front while Allied forces rush into ...

Not sure what the word "enriched" means on the label of your store-bought bread? Here's the lore behind the term and what it ...

Koen, a Dutch housewife who emulated her hero, Jesse Owens, and won four gold medals in track and field in one Olympics — the ...

When Reed Peggram met Arne Hauptmann in Paris in 1939, neither could have imagined their love would carry them through imprisonment, escape, and survival behind enemy lines in wartime Italy.

Alfred and Doris were an unlikely pair with little in common, thrown together by circumstance and shared history. She was a lover of art and music; she was also belligerent and spiky. When her ...

Jewish critics of the Israeli government say they will be punished by a proposed ban on pro-Palestinian slogans.

Wright’s is a story with many parts and consistency is one of the dominant themes. The food is just as you remember it: slow-baked roast chicken so tender the meat falls off the bone, french fries, ...

A slap, a prank and four secret histories: such is the arc of Sound of Falling. Director Mascha Schilinski’s jagged, heady film is a dark collage of girlhood through time, most clearly held together ...

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