Only the British empire was expected to survive as the ... and economic reasons World War II would always have sounded the death knell of the European imperial system. Some British historians ...

In Focus: World War II photos before the war The war ... Japan fused them together on December 7/8, 1941, when it attacked the British empire in Asia. Yanking on Britain’s colonies, Japan ...

Havildar-Major Rajinder Dhatt had been honoured as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by King Charles in 2024 ...

In the darkest days of World War II, when disaster after disaster almost ... along with eighty thousand British troops, even Churchill was stunned. “He felt it was a disgrace,” recalled ...

To take an example from more recent events, since World War II through today the US has ... in India for similar reasons. AD: The British Empire moved toward direct colonial control over much ...

With his kilt proving his proud Scottish ancestry, the diminutive Lieutenant-Colonel 'Mad Mitch' Mitchell was the hero of the 'last battle of the British Empire'. Following Britain's air strikes ...

Elizabeth II, the long-reigning British queen who buoyed a shrinking ... figure who served as a living link to the glories of World War II Britain, presided over its fitful adjustment to a post ...

At the height of that empire after the First World War ... and then exploited for their labor on these different plantations. After World War II, there’s a movement called Mau Mau, which ...