AS the war in Europe ended on VE Day - May 8, 1945 - fighting continued in the Far East and Pacific until August 15, 1945, ...

Former mayor Lesley Bambridge writes of her father’s memories of being captured by the Japanese and working on the ‘Death ...

Thousands of love letters exchanged by a couple separated during World War Two have been published to mark the 80th ...

There were 1,800 prisoners aboard Lisbon Maru when it sank in the South China Sea on 2 October 1942, including Sgt Cyril Mace ...

O ne of the oldest surviving veterans of World War II has told the Duchess of Edinburgh about his experience being held as a ...

A former captive in a Japanese-run prison camp has helped decorate an East Sussex church in honour of fellow inmates that did ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh spoke of her pride today when meeting with a 105-year-old war veteran who survived being torpedoed ...

In the same context, the Palestinian Center for the Defense of Prisoners warned that prisoner Barghouti could be subjected to ...

In a small urban park in Taiwan, more than 4,000 names are etched into a granite wall -- most of them British and American ...

The intensification of prisoner exchanges between Kyiv and Moscow has shed light on the scale and cruelty of torture ...

Maj Gen Wanchana urges Hun Sen to prove sincerity by pulling troops from Thai border before Thailand releases 18 Cambodian ...