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A photograph of the battle of Moscow, 1942, first printed in Signal, a magazine published by the German Third Reich from 1940 to 1945. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

Operation Barbarossa: why Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was his greatest mistake

Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

First World War

“Far too little, too late”: what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?

Author and biographer Max Adams

Max Adams Britain in the centuries after the Romans: “You can think of this era as a black hole into which our history tumbles”

Henry the Young King is crowned in 1170. (Wikimedia Commons)

The real King Arthur and his Lancelot? Henry the Young King’s remarkable friendship with William Marshal

Spitfires under construction at the Vickers Supermarine works in Southampton, around 1940

Second World War

The difficult birth of the Spitfire – and how the WW2 fighter almost missed the battle of Britain

Victorian surgeon Robert Liston during an operation

An appointment at the house of death: the horror of the early Victorian hospital

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