Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The 'Alexander Mosaic' showing Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great: all you need to know about the empire builder and military genius

A portrait of Marie Antoinette

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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)

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

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Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

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'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

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Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland

The assassination of Julius Caesar

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An engraving of the thin Red Line, depicting the 93rd Regiment at the battle of Balaklava

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Q&AWhat was the Thin Red Line?

Dr Jenna Dittmar, who has been studying medieval skeletons, reveals what her findings can tell us about injuries and violence in the era. (Image by Getty Images)

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A decoy rubber tank such as those used by the Allies during WW2.

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Dark side of fashion: a 1910 portrait of a woman wearing a hat adorned with ostrich plumes and a stuffed bird. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, owning hats like this was a sign of status for many women. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Victorian

A hatful of horror: the Victorian headwear craze that led to mass slaughter

Illustration of Despite being outnumbered, the Greeks gained vital supremacy at sea over the Persians at the battle of Salamis in 480 BC

Ancient Greece

The Peloponnesian War: Athens fights Sparta for dominance in ancient Greece

Otto von Bismarck, pictured on horseback, was instrumental in the creation of a unified German state and was among the most influential politicians of late 19th-century Europe.(Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Otto von Bismarck: a brief guide to the ‘founder of modern Germany’

Harold Godwinson is proclaimed king of England in the Bayeux Tapestry. It may have been commissioned by a Norman but this magnificent artwork repeatedly acknowledges the English leader’s piety and courage. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Adolf Hitler. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Your guide to Adolf Hitler: key facts about the Nazi dictator

This image from the Nibelungenlied manuscript shows Pilgrim welcoming Kriemhild, a fictional character described as his neice in the text (Photo by Alamy)

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Illustration of the Black Death from the Chroicles of Gilles Li Muisis (1272-1352), Abbaye Saint-Martin de Tournai (Photo by Alamy)

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Adolf Hitler photographed with British politician Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (left) and Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), minister of foreign affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. (Photo litzy ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Making friends with Hitler: Britain’s pre-war admiration for the Nazi dictator

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Speech of Adolf Hitler to the Reichstag inthe Kroll Opera in Berlin after the Declaration of war to the USA, in addition to the lectern to the right: Press Chief Otto Dietrich and the personal adjutant of Hitler Albert Bormann the Brigade Commander o

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"One of the most puzzling decisions of WW2": Ian Kershaw on why Hitler declared war on America

Did Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler (pictured) ever meet? (Photos by Getty Images)

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Adolf Eichmann during his trial in 1961

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