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    October 2019

    Expert history articles from the October 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine

    A portrait of Russian empress Catherine the Great
    Georgian

    Hypocrite, reactionary, usurper, sex maniac: is Catherine the Great’s reputation justified?

    Jan Žižka, the general whose peasant army defied the Holy Roman Empire in the 1420s.
    Medieval

    Christ’s communists: the radical religious sect that challenged the Holy Roman Empire

    Chancellor Adolf Hitler with President Paul von Hindenburg, Berlin, 1 May 1933
    Second World War

    Hitler’s millionaire backers: how Germany’s elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis

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    Sir Max Hastings. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)
    Second World War

    Sir Max Hastings: “While the Dambuster raid’s strategic impact was almost nil, its propaganda value was immense”

    Elizabeth I shown in the Darnley portrait of c1575 and (right) the French king Henri III. (Images by Alamy/Getty Images)
    Elizabethan

    Henri III: Elizabeth I’s unlikely ally

    Crusaders defeat the Turks at Dorylaeum in 1097, as shown in a 14th-century illumination
    Medieval

    Crusaders: did they fight for God or gold?

    St Mary's Church is revered as one of England's greatest architectural achievements. (Image by Alamy)
    Medieval

    Explore A masterpiece of Gothic grandeur: the Church of St Mary, Warwick

    Akershus Festning in Oslo, Norway
    Viking

    Travel Explore Oslo, Norway: Myths, Munch and fjord-side strolls

    Amelia Earhart, who became the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic in 1932. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    My history hero Amelia Earhart (1897–1937)

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