World on Fire starts in 1939 as Europe is on the brink of war. The new large-scale BBC series focuses on different stories across the continent, from the lives of those living in Manchester to the ...

Like many other cities before and after, whether damaged by war, fire or an earthquake, Gdańsk had to shake off the trauma. It had to gather its resources and start rebuilding. Former President Ronald ...

Napoleon said Gdansk is "key to everything", something a 1,000-year history that has seen it regularly change hands attests to. The maritime city known until 1945 as Danzig has been under the rule of ...

In 1939, it was obvious that Nazi Germany was on the war path. Austria had been annexed just a year earlier, and so was the Sudetenland that belonged to Czechoslovakia. The British and French, who ...

When German author Gunter Grass was born in a suburb of this historic city on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea 80 years ago it was known to most of the world as Danzig. The port now goes under the ...

Guns blaze into life on the SMS Schleswig-Holstein to signal the start of the Second World War. The images of the conflict’s opening salvo emerged in an album compiled by a sailor who was on the ...