This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and security. Such commemorations are a reminder of how 1945 helped forge the ...

Shashank is away this week, so I’m stepping in to update you on “Archive 1945”, The Economist’s special project looking back on how we covered the end of the second world war. Since we started this ...

"When this crazy world is sane again" : the setting for the songs -- "I hear America singing" : but who wrote all those songs? -- "Over here" : prewar isolationism ...

Parades and memorials across Europe marking 80 years since Nazi Germany's surrender at the end of World War II. Eighty years ago today, Britons gathered around their radios. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of ...