August 2014

Articles from the August 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

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The cruel victory: Paddy Ashdown on the French resistance during the Second World War

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

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The great misconceptions of the First World War

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The bloody rise of Augustus

Austria / World War 1 / Outbreak of War:
Announcement of the general mobilisation on 31st Juli 1914.

Departure of troops from Vienna: Crying women by the roadside.

Photo postcard, 1914.

Paris, Jean-Pierre Verney collection.

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1914: Countdown to catastrophe

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

The Library What killed Tutankhamun?

Portrait full length of Hendrik Witbooi standing holding rifle circa 1900. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).

My history hero: Hendrik Witbooi (born c1830)

Kathryn Ferry, UK seaside expert in Hastings, East Sussex

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History explorer: The interwar holiday revolution

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My favourite place: Delphi, Greece

An illustration of a Tudor street

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