Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ‘blitzkrieg’, meaning ‘lightning war’. This is a timeline of the almost ...

The Three Nights' Blitz began on 19 February 1941, killing 230 and injuring nearly 400. The three-night raid on Swansea in 1941 killed 230 people and left the city ...

On the 85th anniversary of the Blitz and ahead of a new play about it, BBC News NI talks to 93-year-old Reggie who lived ...

On 7 September 1940, having failed to defeat RAF Fighter Command in a summer of dog fights and bombing raids on British airfields, Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe, the German air force, to target ...

Documentary series examining the effects of individual bombs that fell during the Blitz, from their initial impact on individual lives right through to their consequences for World War Two and the ...

A 97-year-old man has told how his family's air-raid shelter caved in on the night of the Coventry Blitz, leaving them buried before his father dug them out. "The air was foul with cordite, ...