A 99-year-old British WW2 veteran has travelled 4,400 miles from her home in Canada to ask Sir Keir Starmer to unfreeze her ...

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The train came to a standstill, a mile past Harrow Mill station on the West Anglia main line, 12 miles away from Stansted ...

Robin Quinn, author of Hitler's Last Army: German POWs in Britain, said: "It was very makeshift. All sorts of buildings were used as accommodation, from stately homes to old mills. "When the Red ...

neglecting the fact that Britain controlled a large Empire and that there were numerous "home fronts", each of which contributed greatly to the war effort but each in slightly different ways. This ...

The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with parts of Britain literally a war front, coming under enemy attack from the sea and increasingly the air. However, the home front also ...

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Never before had the boundaries between home front and front line been ... following Germany's surrender in WW2. But how did Britain plan for one of the greatest days in its history?