Her mother and sister prepared to evacuate to an air raid shelter, but she hid behind a shelf in her home and covered herself with a duvet, fearing that incendiary bombs might fall on the shelter.

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

Shizuko Nishio started shaking and sank to her knees as she watched TV news footage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That was two years ago. One scene, of a Ukrainian girl weeping in an ...

Karl, right, and Niall Dixon were extending a driveway when they uncovered the shelter Workmen said they were amazed after uncovering a World War Two air raid shelter under a flowerbed at a house ...