This wasn't a war with battles and soldiers like in the movies; it was about fish! The heart of the matter was simple: both Britain and Iceland wanted to catch cod, a type of fish very popular for its ...

Some of the 43 trawler captains who were on opposite sides in the Cod Wars have met for the first time since the conflict to discuss how to commemorate the battle. Between the 1950s and 1970s, the UK ...

The two European Nato countries clash in the third cod war over fishing rights in the Atlantic After the second world war Iceland began to gradually extend the fishing zone around its coastline. The ...

Most people born after 1980 will have little more than a fleeting 'rings a bell' concept of the Cod Wars. But for those who lived during the three battles between Britain and Iceland they wreaked ...