Second world war
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Britain’s bonfire of the atrocities | Brief letters
Destroyed documents | Football shirt dilemma | Wednesday misery | Awkward advert placementAngela Blazy-O’Reill…
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China and Russia pledge to deepen ties as they criticise US on Victory Day
In joint statement, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin accuse ‘certain countries’ of trying to ‘tamper with the res…
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Eighty years since the Tokyo firebombing, survivors are still awaiting recognition
More people were killed in the 1945 attack than the atomic bombing of Nagasaki a few months later, but there i…
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The great remembrance divide: Britain fought for freedom in Europe, but against it in the colonies | Mihir Bose
While war raged against Hitler, people in places such as India were brutalised – despite their own sacrifices …
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Families seek to clear names of men who refused to fight for former Dutch colony
Conscientious objectors refused to take part in military campaign against Indonesian independence in 1940sFami…
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Buried US second world war bomb explodes at Japanese airport
Unexpected blast at Miyazaki airport makes crater in taxiway and leads to grounding of 80 flights but no injur…
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More than 200 unexploded second world war shells found near Solomon Islands school
Police dug up and removed the rust-caked projectiles, which belonged to US troops during the second world warW…
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‘You can’t fight your way to peace’: from a 20-year-old Israeli to a 99-year-old Briton, eight conscientious objectors on why they refused to serve in the army
Military service for 18-year-olds is a key Tory election pledge in the UK. But in countries with conscription,…
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Group to search for celebrated US pilot’s fighter plane in South Pacific
Richard Bong downed 40 aircraft in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning before it crashed while being flown by another pi…
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Japan’s PM deplores ‘Russia’s nuclear threat’ on 78th anniversary of Hiroshima
Mayor of city where Little Boy atom bomb was dropped says nuclear deterrence is ‘folly’Japan’s prime minister …
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Bawaal review – redemption romcom in spectacularly poor taste
While the premise – an awful man learns from his much better wife – is serviceable, the plot, centring on a to…
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Doreen Gibbons obituary
My mother, Doreen Gibbons, who has died aged 96, was a civil internee in Shanghai, China, during the second wo…
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G7 leaders confront spectre of nuclear conflict on visit to Hiroshima memorial
At a ceremony opening the G7 summit in Japan, leaders laid wreaths and visited the museum commemorating the 19…
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Japan approves biggest military buildup since second world war amid China fears
US welcomes doubling of military spending but critics express unease over abandoning seven decades of pacifism…
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Hiroshima survivors plead for nuclear-free world as global tensions rise
Survivors of 1945 atomic bomb express deep concern amid bellicose rhetoric from Russia and North KoreaToshiyuk…