second World War

Calls for historical commemoration projects and more compensation for wartime survivors from Germany for suffering it inflicted

Melanie Müller accused of gesture during concert in Leipzig

July 28th-August 2nd: From the new series of Interview with the Vampier to testimony from the last of Japan’s atomic bomb surivors

Yad Vashem has just opened a new facility exhibiting a vast collection of Holocaust-era items, each one linked to an individual victim or survivor

Max Hastings offers a thrilling account of a daring raid to steal German radar technology in 1942

There is no sense of catharsis in documentary featuring son of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss

July 7th-12th: From new Instanbul-set crime crama The Turkish Detective to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new reality

Podcast review: The seaborne invasion, involving more than 130,000 troops, created a path to victory in Europe during the second World War

Enthralling analyses of history dig into how human traits of violence and co-operation interact and evolve to sustain cultures of warfare

Perhaps not overly mindful of the horrors that would await them, many Irish people went in search of liberation, adventure or experiences unavailable at home

From rugby stars to future priests and economic migrants to Troubles negotiators, these are their stories

Ceremonies likely to be the among the last honouring second World War veterans, many aged 100 or more, in their presence

Tobias Buck digs into how Germany dragged its feet on denazification and prosecutions for decades after war

Dudley Clarke was best known as British intelligence chief who devised the SAS but lesser known is his role advising De Valera’s government on how to fend off a feared German invasion

Despite the pursuit of hard fact, the nature of reality is illuminated by Eastern thought as much as it is by atomic theory

Worldview: Russia’s deeply ingrained tradition of violence against its neighbours and its own citizens led inexorably to the invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Medvedev argues

This is an inviting, eclectic book, loosely based on 12 shipwrecks, ranging from a Bronze Age wreck to a ship sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic

Television: You can feel the high production values in this Apple TV series, but the results are ultimately flawed

In the News podcast: Donald Clarke on The Zone of Interest

Lyndsey Stonebridge’s biography of the US political theorist illuminates the titanic forces of love and evil which animate civilisation - be it the second World War or now. It is timely and magisterial