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An argument against ''national interest''

The story of race and class in the Second World War

War criminal takes part in documentary

A decent thriller with a ridiculous message

This week we are encouraged to celebrate VE Day, which marked an end to the bloody fighting of the Second World War in Europe on 8 May 1945.

A global pandemic has exposed just how fragile the world economy already was. Tomáš Tengely-Evans examines why capitalism constantly creates economic crises

The “Blitz spirit” was then, as now, a propaganda ploy.

During times of turmoil, the ruling class will tell us to come together. Behind this is the drive to keep making profits writes Nick Clark

Rarely do we see a war story that focuses on ordinary people rather than the event as a whole

Abandoned by the Allies

Were moon landings a giant leap forward for humanity, or the culmination of a growing Cold War? Gabby Thorpe boldly goes in search of the legacy of the space race

As the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings sees politicians commemorate the events Tomáš Tengely-Evans looks at the horrific reality of the Second World War

It’s two weeks before the end of the Second World War and the German army is disintegrating.

The author is a Nobel Prize winner who documents the experience of women that served in the Soviet Army in the Second World War, based on hundreds of interviews she carried out in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One million women served in the Soviet Army and she spoke to women who worked in...

The establishment claims the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) at Dunkirk was an example of people pulling together in the national interest.

This exhibition looks at key moments in the development of art from the French Revolution to the Second World War. The main subject matter of European art from the 15th century onwards had been the ruling classes and their possessions. Realism had been the dominant artistic form. However, the successive political upheavals of the 19th...

Donny Gluckstein writes on the new book he has edited on those who fought both against imperialism and fascism during the Second World War

Next month is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. There will be official events, which combine just the right amount of sombreness with a celebration of the victory of “democracy” and “freedom” over fascism and tyranny. But for the rulers of the Allied nations the war was never about democracy...

Striking workers and the French Resistance rose up to free Paris from Nazi occupation in 1944—before allied troops arrived, author Matthew Cobb tells Sarah Ensor

The Second World War is usually portrayed as a "good war". But in a recent book Donny Gluckstein argues that the war was both an imperialist war and a people's war. Mark Kilian explores this fascinating new study

The scale and methods of the Nazi genocide of Jewish people make it a politically unique event that deserves a special day of memorial.

Bush and Blair's denunciation of Iraqi insurgents as 'criminals' and 'terrorists' recalls the experience of the French Resistance and the Algerian war of independence.

Democracy and liberation were not top of the agenda following the Second World War.