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Captain Bob Walker-Brown had parachuted into this remote part of northern Italy with 33 members of the SAS under his command. Their mission was to wreak utter havoc and mayhem.

By the spring of 1945, the SAS was an established covert force. Official historian Ben Macintyre reveals the unimaginable horror that members of the regiment encountered in the last days of the war.

British forces in the 1940s committed horrific acts of sexual torture, as well as physical and psychological abuse, against young Jewish boys and girls.The post The Gaza war and dark

There is no sign of waning interest in Second World War medals, which continue to raise thousands at auction – here's why

EXCLUSIVE: It was July 1943, and Blair Paddy Mayne, the SASs commander, was tasked with the destruction of the shore guns on the Capo Murro di Porco in Sicily.

Could this street really be named after a Montreal Canadiens icon, or is that an apocryphal tale?

Having ousted the Ottomans from Palestine in 1917, Britain administered a territory that was already a tinderbox of tensions between Arabs and Jews. Matthew Hughes explores the bloody end of the Palestine Mandate and the emergence of the State of Israel

Operation Mercury: The Battle of Crete

Thursos Heritage by a Thirsa Loon

April 30, 2003 — Framework for Peace Is Unveiled The Quartet of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations issues its Roadmap for Peace, a framework for talks to achieve a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. The plan comes during the Second Intifada. Israel lists 14 main concerns with the Roadmap but, like the Palestinian Authority, commits to trying to make it work. Hamas rejects it. Talks under the plan make no progress.   May 1, 1956 â€...