Boy Waves To Soldiers On The Berlin Wall

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The LibraryThe History Essay: How Europe rose from the dead.

Death camp Britons.

When Hitler took cocaine.

A dead German soldier during the Antwerp offensive

The LibraryArdennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble.

A British major pictured in German captivity

"How I fell captive to the Germans": the experience of First World War PoWs.

Hitler and his general staff

1945: The race for Berlin.

Stalin’s early years and Mein Kampf.

American forces advance through the Ardennes forest during the battle of the Bulge. (Photo by George Silk/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s final gamble.

Berlin Wall in November 1989

The story of Germany.

The Berlin Wall and the return of Charles II.

Red Army tank drivers on a street in the city of Rakov, Poland

1939: When Poland was torn to pieces.

An elevated view over Stiftskirche & surrounding township, Baden-Baden, Germany

My favourite place: The Black Forest, south-west Germany

Quiz - Would you have been accepted to join the army and fight in WW1 in August 1914?.

A colour image of military guns during World War One

First World War

The First World War in colour

A scene from the 1963 film 'Naked Among Wolves', depicting a Nazi concentration camp

The long shadow of Adolf Hitler.

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speaking at a Nazi rally in 1936. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

When Hitler’s perfect woman came to call.

Army recruits take the oath in White City, London, December 1914. “Creating an army more or less from scratch was a recipe for disastrous losses,” claims Niall Ferguson. (Getty Images)

“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson.

A recruitment poster used during the First World War, c1915.

Why Britain was right to go to war in 1914.

A Christmas card from the First World War

First World War

First World War Christmas cards

Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War.

1914: Why Britain had to go to war.

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618.

German soldiers with a horse-drawn cart during the retreat from Ukraine in 1943. The idea of Teutonic efficiency was a triumph of Nazi spin, says James Holland. (Keystone/Getty Images)

The great misconceptions of the Second World War.

A crew of Dambusters pictured together in c1943. The famed Dambusters raid, Operation Chastise, was an RAF attempt to breach German dams and so "deprive Ruhr industry, and the Mittelland Canal of water, over the longest period of time possible". (Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ IWM via Getty Images)

The legacy of the Dambusters.

History on trial.

A noisy history of the world.

"I read and studied much": Adolf Hitler at his Berghof mountain retreat in c1936. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Hitler's philosophers.

My history hero: Clara Schumann (1819-96).

An illustration depicting the battle of Naseby, arguably one of the most significant land battles in British history. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

20 important battles that shaped Britain

George Frederick Handel married opera's passion with the respectability of biblical texts, says Tim Blanning. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

10 milestones in the history of western music.