Second World War battles

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the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

The unsung heroes who won the war

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Hitler and his general staff

1945: The race for Berlin

A Kamikaze pilot scores a direct hit on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean, c1942. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The reluctant kamikaze of the Second World War

American forces advance through the Ardennes forest during the battle of the Bulge. (Photo by George Silk/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s final gamble

Red Army tank drivers on a street in the city of Rakov, Poland

1939: When Poland was torn to pieces

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

Pain through the prism of war

James Holland.

Second World War

The Library D-Day: James Holland answers your questions

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Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The Library Britain and France: Empires under fire

Captain Walker (fourth from the left), clutching a hastily grabbed sandwich in his right hand, plots his next move during a patrol that saw his group notch up a record six kills, February 1944. (Photo by Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images)

The Library Johnnie Walker: U-boat hunter in the Second World War

A crew of Dambusters pictured together in c1943. The famed Dambusters raid, Operation Chastise, was an RAF attempt to breach German dams and so

The legacy of the Dambusters

British soldiers in Normandy. Though Goodwood cost the British some 200 tanks, infantry losses were relatively light, says Mark Urban. (Capt. E G Malindine/IWM via Getty Images)

Operation Goodwood: one of the biggest British disasters of the Second World War?