LONDON (Reuters Life!) - For months after the declaration of war against Germany in 1939, many Britons were convinced the conflict would be relatively brief, a new exhibition at London's Imperial War ...

What Was the Phony War? British aircraft production, part of the mobilization in Great Britain, 1939 In Episode 2 of World on Fire, Harry Chase urges Britain to act, telling his commander, “We ...

Historian Shambrook (French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936) offers an exhaustive study of official diplomatic documents pertaining to Britain’s control of Palestine. Confident that the Ottoman Turks ...

BERLIN, July 24, 1940 (UP) -- German ire rose sharply today over Great Britain's refusal to accept Adolf Hitler's "appeal to common sense." Newspapers denounced British leaders and showed, by their ...

On the eve of the war that would cost the lives of more than one million British military personnel, change the path of the empire, and reshape the skylines of cities from London to Glasgow, people ...