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A Very English Scandal. (BBCBlueprint Television Ltd)

History TV and radio: what’s on next week (19-25 May 2018)

Podcast Website large Antony Beevor

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Beevor on Arnhem

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

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Arnhem: A disaster in the planning

From The Library

Members of 617 squadron, known as the Dambusters

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How successful was the Dambusters raid?

Winston Churchill making the famed ‘V’ for Victory sign. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Winston Churchill

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11 shocking moments in history

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

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After VE Day: The war without an end

An archive photo of the Bevin Boys. The name was given to the conscripted workforce that provided Britain with coal during the Second World War. (Courtesy of Mining Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland)

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5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Bevin Boys

Actress Lily James and actor Michael Huisman looking at each other in a still from the film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Life under Nazi rule: the occupation of the Channel Islands

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Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

Norsk Hydro's Vermork plant

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The Special Operations Executive: Churchill’s secret army

From The Library

The Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to live before they were sent to concentration camps as part of Adolf Hitler’s ‘final solution’. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

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My history hero: Krystyna Skarbek

From The Library

A flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft of No 73 Squadron RAF, over France, 19 April 1940. (Photo by S. A. Devon/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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How the RAF won the war