No perky cockneys? How Henry Moore’s sheltering souls puncture our blitz bravado
On the eve of a general election, the artist’s drawings of Londoners sheltering from Nazi bombs in the Underground come as a sobering yet welcome reminder of British decency
Oldest ever US organ donor believed to be 98-year-old man
Orville Allen, second world war and Korean war veteran, died on 29 May and his liver was successfully transplanted
D-day, Rishi Sunak and the eastern front
Letters: D-day commemorations have failed to mention equally important turning points in the war, says Prof Colin Green. Plus a letter from Ben Summerskill
I feel squeamish talking to Germans about the war. Is it a British thing?
Adrian Chiles
Treasure review – Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry uneasy in well-intentioned Holocaust drama
Glued to Hitler: what Brecht’s overlooked collages tell us about how fascism takes hold
Reform UK defends candidate over Hitler neutrality comments
Party’s spokesperson says Ian Gribbin’s comments that Britain should have accepted Nazi offer ‘probably true’
Cut Rishi Sunak some slack – his D-day blunder is hardly the worst thing he’s done
Simon Jenkins
The real problem is how past wars are invoked not only to ramp up today’s defence spending, but to agitate for fresh conflict, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
‘I’m blessed. I’m still here’: ex-MP Patrick Duffy, 103, publishes memoirs
Oldest surviving MP can clearly recall the 1926 general strike, part of his long and immensely eventful life
‘You can’t fight your way to peace’: from a 20-year-old Israeli to a 99-year-old Briton, eight conscientious objectors on why they refused to serve in the army
‘We’re in 1938 now’: Putin’s war in Ukraine and lessons from history