Soldiers

A hill to die on: why the Allies almost failed in the battle of Monte Cassino in WW2

Women in WW2 army uniform march in front of an airplane

Second World War

Is The Six Triple Eight a true story? The real WW2 history, as told by the movie’s historical consultant

Photo of the SAS in North Africa

Second World War

How the early SAS became heroes of the Second World War

First World War

10 surprising facts about First World War uniforms

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall

Building utopia after WW1

Oliver Cromwell’s remarkable rise to power

A line-up of girls ready to play football, somewhere in England during the First World War, c1917. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

First World War

10 facts you (probably) didn't know about the First World War

Indian soldiers during WWI

Indians in the trenches

A vintage colour postcard, possibly produced to send Christmas greetings from the frontline, somewhere on the Western Front, during the First World War, c1918. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Christmas10 ways Christmas was celebrated during the First World War

The Bomber Command Memorial in London, which was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. (Photo by Epics/Getty Images)

How should we remember the men of Bomber Command?

Photograph of the Wounded British Soldiers at the Battle of the Somme. Dated 1916. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

First World War

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of the Somme

Director Peter Jackson in 2015 in Beijing, China (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Peter Jackson on the First World War

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

Who were the real monuments men of the Second World War?

British former field marshal Douglas Haig, inspects poppies before Armistice Day, October 1922. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Remembering the First World War: blood, poppies and poetry

Battle of the Somme special

Death camp Britons

the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

The unsung heroes who won the war

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Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’

First World War

How did WW1 end?

15 things you didn’t know about fashion in the First World War

First World War

In focus: the forgotten WW1 Bonus Army

10 golden rules of fitness for First World War soldiers

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

Pain through the prism of war

First World War

Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

First World War

Slang and swear words 'helped soldiers survive the First World War'

Holding the line: France in the First World War

The prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. Famous for being the location of the ‘Great Escape’, it was home to Ron Last for ten months. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The long road home

BBC History Magazine

Has Britain always united behind commemorations of the war dead?