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What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War

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)

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Christmas 10 ways Christmas was celebrated during the First World War

Soldiers at the battle of Arnhem

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9 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of Arnhem

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

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

Bill Edwardes, who at the age of 16 joined the army to fight during WW2.

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The boys who lied about their age to fight in WW2

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

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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)

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

Women of the Sarah Caswell Angell chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, engaging in war work activities to assist the Allied cause during the First World War, 1918. During their sessions they knitted, made hospital garments, sewed for French children, and made aviators' vests. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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A–Z of the First World War

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

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Peter Jackson on the First World War

The Ghent Altarpiece. (Image by Getty Images)

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

A First World War silk screened poster c1918 showing a frightening German soldier holding a bloodied bayonet. Caption reads: "Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds". (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Why did the Allies call Germans ‘Huns’ during World War I?

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

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Remembering the First World War: blood, poppies and poetry

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

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Innocence under fire

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Battle of the Somme special

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A brief history of camouflage