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A scene from Dunkirk

Forgotten by history?

With Dunkirk choosing to omit Indian soldiers out of the World War II setting, filmmakers set the record straight on...

2 Aug 2017 12:07 AM IST

You will be controlling Private Ronald Daniels as you go from France to Belgium and finally into Germany.

Gear up for COD WW II

The game will primarily take the player to the 1944-45 European theatre of World War II.

3 May 2017 12:17 AM IST

Historians say up to 200,000 women were forced into sex slavery. (Photo: AP)

Japan protest S Korea's over 'comfort women' in World war II by...

200,000 women mostly from Korea but also other parts of Asia including China were forced to work at Japanese military...

11 July 2017 4:55 PM IST

Lt. Gen. Srinivas Kumar Sinha (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)

The thinking man's soldier'

Lt. Gen. Sinha was very much an old-world aristocrat in the truest sense of the word, calm and collected under all...

19 Nov 2016 4:26 AM IST

This file photo shows Indonesian customers in World War II military uniforms sitting next to a portrait of Adolf Hitler at Soldaten Kaffee in Bandung, Java. (Photo: AFP)

Indonesian Nazi' cafe shuts down for lack of customers

The owner Henry Mulyana voluntarily shut the cafe in 2013 after receiving death threats but it was reopened a year...

27 Jan 2017 5:06 AM IST

It was postmarked May 1945 and written by a woman named Virginia to her husband, Rolf Christoffersen (Photo: Pixabay) (Representational Image)

World War II vet reunited with love letter 72 years later

Melissa Fahy and her father were renovating her Westfield home when they found the letter in a gap under the stairs.

11 May 2017 7:15 PM IST

Adolf Hitler (Photo: AP)

Shedding light on French deportees put to work on Hitler's secret...

A committee was created after the war to provide aid to widows and orphans of those who did not survive the camp.

18 May 2017 10:28 AM IST

The British seized one of the richest countries in the world and, over 200 years of colonial rule, reduced it to one of the poorest, most diseased and most illiterate countries on earth.

Discourse: Forgive but do not forget

Shashi Tharoor is seeking precisely this when he demands that Britain apologise and compensate India for its outrageous...

26 March 2017 3:26 AM IST

Charles Leuzzi receives his high school diploma. (Photo: Youtube)

World War II veteran Charles Leuzzi receives high school diploma

The 97-year-old had to leave school in his junior year to fight in the war.

18 July 2017 12:08 PM IST

People watch a statue symbolizing women forced into wartime Japanese military brothels in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo: AP)

S Korean dies after self-immolation over Japan deal

The monk, 64, set himself ablaze Saturday during rallies against impeached President Park and was declared dead after...

10 Jan 2017 3:23 PM IST

Historians say up to 200,000 women were forced into sex slavery. (Photo: AP)

South Korea began to review of sex slavery deal with Japan

The plight of the so-called "comfort women" is a hugely emotional issue that has marred relations between the Asian...

31 July 2017 4:13 PM IST

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe's Pearl Harbor pilgrimage to underscore alliance of hope'

Abe and Obama will speak at Pearl Harbor to mark the historic occasion.

28 Dec 2016 3:53 AM IST