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The Standard View: Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing marks the end of an extraordinary time in world history

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev last night marks the end of an extraordinary time in world history, when the apparently inexorable changes that followed the Second World War were undone. He was the man who, more than anyone, drew back the Iron Curtain.

Evening Standard

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Independent UK

Ukraine Plans International Court to Put Putin on Trial

Six months into Russia's invasion, Ukrainian officials are drawing up plans to make sure Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top military commanders will be tried for launching the war. The plan for a special international tribunal to investigate Russia's alleged "crime of aggression" is being spearheaded by Andrii Smirnov,…

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‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on

The Second World War’s deadliest battle – and one of the most brutal of all time – started on August 23, 1942, when Adolf Hitler’s forces went all out to seize the city bearing Joseph Stalin’s name. If ever a battle was like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object,…

France 24

RAF veteran, 99, who served in the Second World War has wartime debt repaid over seven decades later

Peggy Terry, who served under her maiden name of Margaret Potter, was a Leading Aircraftwoman and during an 18-month stint at RAF Coningsby towards the end of the war and helped service the Lancaster bombers

Wales Online

The second world war airbase turned private nature reserve – with its own low-impact holiday cabins

Once home to Clark Gable’s air squadron, the Wilding Airfield in Northamptonshire now has two cabins immersed in nature, as well as the relics of war

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Common Decency; A Woman’s World: 1850-1960; The Pathfinders – reviews

Susannah Dickey’s vivid novel about an obsessive friendship; a colourful hymn to the power of social change; and the weighty story of a second world war unit

The Guardian - UK

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Werner Herzog: ‘I was never, contrary to rumours, a hazard-seeking, crazy stuntman’

The German director, famed for making films about people at the fringes of society, has written a novel about another one: a Japanese soldier who carried on fighting the second world war for 29 years after it ended

The Guardian - UK

New musical tells the story of wartime hero Alan Turing

Edinburgh Fringe show sets out to tell the tale of the code-breaker whose crucial work on German cyphers helped win the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Terrifying doll with bleeding eyes found inside abandoned Scots hospital

Until the Second World War, the hopsital was a tuberculosis sanatorium for patients in the south east region of Scotland

Daily Record

Condoms to secret documents: Nazi U-boat items to go on display for first time

Exclusive: Liverpool exhibitors hope documents from sunken submarine may hold clues to end of regime

The Guardian - UK

Series of explosions hamper attempts to tackle Berlin forest fire

Firefighters struggle to contain blaze that began at munitions site used to store second world war bombs

The Guardian - UK

Europe witnessing ‘destruction not seen since WWII’, says Nato chief

The Nato chief warned Europe faces it’s biggest threat since the Second World War

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak greets Tory members at event in Shropshire

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have been courting votes in the Tory heartlands with party members saying whoever wins will be facing the “most difficult start… since the Second World War”.

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Just-wed husband lost ring in sea and thought that was it, then along came a man with a knack for finding things

Detectorist Tony Ballantine has reunited five people with their wedding rings over the years and has found "everything you can imagine" including 800-year-old coins and shrapnel from the Second World War

Daily Mirror

Huge shipwreck lying at the bottom of the sea just a few miles off UK coast

The deep history of the long-forgotten MS Pilsudski has been uncovered, tens of years after it sunk just a few miles off the East Yorkshire coast during Second World War

The Guardian - US

Lake Mead: shrinking waters uncover buried secrets and grisly finds

Sunken boat from second world war and at least three sets of human remains found in largest US reservoir – and more could follow

The Conversation

Do we care enough about COVID?

The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the blitz” – the idea of a society that pulled together in the second world war to withstand the bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe with pluck, bravery and humour.

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Families were 'brutally ripped apart' as Chinese seamen were forced out of Britain

Liverpool MP slams 'racist and coercive' actions of the British state as government report confirms Chinese sailors in Liverpool were forcibly repatriated after Second World War

The Guardian - UK

Correlli Barnett obituary

Military historian whose books took aim at the myths of Britain’s wartime exploits and its political and military leaders

The Conversation

UK heatwave: how the fire service will need to prepare as extreme weather events get worse

The UK’s record-breaking heatwave made it clear how unprepared much of the country is for extreme weather caused by climate change. There were hundreds of fires reported around the country, making it UK firefighters’ busiest day since the second world war – and just a glimpse of what’s to come.

The Independent UK

Ukrainian refugees to mark Grade II listing of Second World War cross

The cross serves as a reminder of the impact of war on displaced communities throughout history.

Evening Standard

We don’t know if our homes are still standing, say fire-hit London families

The scale of the damage caused by the record-breaking heatwave emerged on Wednesday as Sadiq Khan said the London Fire Brigade had seen its busiest day since the Second World War.

Evening Standard

Nearly 40 fire engines unable to tackle London wildfires due to firefighter shortage, says union

Nearly 40 London fire engines were unavailable to tackle wildfires on the busiest day for firefighters since the Second World War, according to a union.

Evening Standard

London fires: Scores of homes destroyed by devastating blazes as firefighter tells of ‘absolute hell’

London Fire Brigade had its busiest day since the end of the Second World War with more than 2,600 emergency calls made

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