Nazi Germany overran France and forced the British army to evacuate at Dunkirk. Severely lacking in military equipment, Britain and her empire now stood alone against Adolf Hitler's forces.

The Hawker Hurricane was not as attractive or streamlined as the Spitfire, and it failed to capture the public’s respect in ...

Times critics discuss the big winners — a new play about Roald Dahl, a “Fiddler on the Roof” revival and a folk-rock ...

When Britain stood alone in 1940, our Army having been defeated in France, it was The Few of the RAF who fought and won the Battle of Britain. 'That gave Winston Churchill the confidence to say ...

303 Squadron was officially activated on August 2, 1940, twenty-three days after the Battle of Britain commenced. However, it would take some time before these Polish fighter pilots were allowed ...

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The last surviving pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain during World War ... to lead tributes to Hemingway, who won a medal for bravery.

We can learn a lot from the era of Churchill, a man revered and reviled at one and the same time. How is it that England in ...

Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army was defeated at Culloden in 1746 Archaeologists suggest artefacts connected to the 279-year-old Battle of Culloden could be unearthed during construction of ...

HOW many more times will we see the men from the ministry arrive to take ­control of part of Britain’s dwindling industrial ...

Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes ...

The war in Ukraine is now partly a battle for the attention of the White ... a Chinese invasion of Taiwan – and preparing it to win a potential conflict with Beijing. Marco Rubio, the US ...

Its Full Self-Driving features, long promised and never delivered stateside, are now all but banned in Britain. The Department for Transport (DfT) has disallowed most of Tesla’s driver-assist ...