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Second world war

August 2026

  • Firefighters battle a wildfire amid thick smoke on a rocky hillside

    double quotation markWe need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires

    Seth Klein
    While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action
  • A scene from La Bataille de Gaulle

    The Guardian view on French cinema’s De Gaulle moment: present anxieties inform a new focus on the past

    Editorial: A wave of films dealing with the second world war is captivating a nation facing major contemporary challenges

    • Himmler’s ‘anti-Nazi’ masseur: Claes Bang stars as SS chief’s ‘magic Buddha’

    • Lucky Strike review – likably manly Scott Eastwood fights his way home in second world war yarn

    • Wingtip from downed fighter plane flown by ‘ace of aces’ Richard Bong brought to US from South Pacific

July 2026

  • Maria and Czeslaw Krupa and companions pose outside a modern building, one man on a mobility scooter

    ‘It was a big shock’: new border rules left couple stuck in Kraków after living in UK for 80 years

  • John Croft, Bletchley Park codebreaker, in later life

    John Croft obituary

  • A statue of Alexander the Great on horseback, the winged figure on Nike in the palm of his hand, with Mount Olympus in the background

    Joy in Greece as Mount Olympus joins Unesco list of world heritage sites

  • Koko Kondo in Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park

    ‘I never mentioned it for 25 years. I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo on horror, anger and forgiveness

  • ‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima

  • ‘Overdue reunion’: aviation hero’s long lost granddaughter uncovers secret past

  • Trent Park House of Secrets review – the bugged stately home where German prisoners blabbed their secrets

  • ‘There was absolutely no chance of being a kid’: new exhibition explores how war shapes children’s lives

  • Juliet Gardiner obituary

  • Polish-Ukrainian solidarity over Russian threat undermined by bitter historical dispute

  • Carlo Ginzburg obituary

June 2026

  • Alexander Hurst

    double quotation markStubborn, arrogant, a genius: France’s De Gaulle epic shows up the tepidity of our politics

    Alexander Hurst
  • Benjamin Britten with raised baton stands before an orchestra and choir in a brick concert hall

    The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write

  • Helen Cammock working at the engraving laboratory of the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome.

    Artwork removed from National Portrait Gallery after row over Churchill’s role in Bengal famine

  • A massive mushroom cloud rises above Hiroshima in an aerial photograph

    Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive

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