August 2014

Articles from the August 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

An American recruitment poster. “US forces showed an impressive ability to learn at speed,” says Nick Lloyd. (© Getty)

First World War

The great misconceptions of the First World War

Augustus Caesar was named named as the principal heir of Julius Caesar. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The bloody rise of Augustus

A photograph of a crowd in Berlin celebrating Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany's proclamation of war against Great Britain, August 1914. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

First World War

1914: Countdown to catastrophe

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Archaeologist Howard Carter opens the coffin of Tutankhamun. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

What killed Tutankhamun?

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Portrait of Hendrik Witbooi

My history hero: Hendrik Witbooi (born c1830)

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Kathryn Ferry, UK seaside expert in Hastings, East Sussex

First World War

History explorer: The interwar holiday revolution

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The maquis du Vercors were a rural group of French resistance fighters who converged on the Vercors plateau in south-east France. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Second World War

The cruel victory

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The ruins of the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Delphi, Greece

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An illustration of a Tudor street

“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung

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