November 2016 (Issue 35)

Expert articles from the November 2016 issue of BBC History Revealed Magazine

Photo of the SAS in North Africa

Second World War

How the early SAS became heroes of the Second World War

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Annie Oakley: the most famous sharpshooter in America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boats clash at sea in this illustration of the 480 BC battle of Salamis, fought between a Persian army led by King Xerxes I and the Greek army led by Themistocles

Ancient Greece

Salamis, 480 BC: a horror at sea for the Persian empire

Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

Iron Age

A brief guide to the British Iron Age

A view of Mount Everest

20th Century

Mystery on Everest: did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit in 1924?