100 days in 1940, World War II: Winston Churchill, blitzkrieg and the "Finest Hour". On the May 10th 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — and Germany launched its ...

“Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...

A British museum has begun the process of lifting the only Nazi bomber to survive the World War II Blitz on London out of its shallow grave -- under 60 feet of water and shifting sands under the ...

Blitz is a gripping portrayal of London during the WWII German blitzkrieg, showcasing Steve McQueen's artistic prowess. The story is told from the perspectives of a working-class single mother, Rita ...

A refurbished wartime pillbox has been opened up for the first time since 1945 to commemorate the Filton Blitz, which killed ...

The beauty of data visualizations is that they can describe something incomprehensible through data alone — even if that something is a tragedy. During the London Blitz, from October 7, 1940 to June 6 ...

After several months of bombing, the Kirkdale area had taken a fair share of bombs. My elder brother was away and my younger sisters evacuated; at home, 24 Newman Street, were my father, mother, ...

NYFF: Saoirse Ronan stands out from a surprisingly conventional World War II movie that can struggle to accommodate its ...

That summer, Hitler and the German Luftwaffe turned their attention to Britain, with the Nazi dictator aiming to use his air forces to soften up the country for an eventual ground invasion — codenamed ...

Each Christmas, Manchester remembers the anniversary of the bloodiest 48 hours in the city's history - the December 1940 blitz. More than 800 civilians were killed in two nights of intense bombing ...