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Pearl Harbor Episode 5

John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show

The con man who saved Christmas

Richard Bosworth answers listener questions on the authoritarian ideology that emerged in Italy a century ago. (Image by Getty Images)

Fascism: everything you wanted to know

Dejan Djokic revisits the brief 1991 war that saw Slovenia secure independence and helped set in motion the collapse of Yugoslavia . (Image by Getty Images)

Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end

The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Flying into history: the Wright Brothers’ Flyer and the world’s first flight

Black and white image of island prison, taken from the sky

The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

Photo of members of the Versailles Conference

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Your guide to the Treaty of Versailles

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Pearl Harbor Episode 4

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Emma Dabiri “He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality”

Stephen Walker tells Rhiannon Davies about the history of animals in space, from fruit flies and monkeys to Laika the Soviet space dog. (Image by Getty Images)

Animals in space: from Laika to jellyfish & tortoises

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Michael Wood on James Bond “Bond’s role grew out of proportion to Britain’s standing in the world”

Schoolchildren in Liverpool have their Christmas party in an air raid shelter built into a railway arch

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What was Christmas like in Britain during WW2?

Soviet infantrymen charge in a counter offensive during the battle of Moscow, 1941.

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The 1941 battle of Moscow: how successful was Operation Typhoon?

Pearl Harbor sparked an aircraft-manufacturing drive – and, for the first time, allowed US women to perform jobs previously held only by men. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Pearl Harbor aftermath: the fallout from the attack

Mary Sarotte reveals how US and Russian leaders squandered the opportunity to forge a lasting partnership at the dawn of the 1990s. (Image by Getty Images)

How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s