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Second World War battles

From D-Day to Dunkirk; from Stalingrad to the Battle of Britain, we bring you the facts and analysis on the most important battles of the Second World War. Covering Britain, Russia, Europe and the world beyond, we examine the bloodiest, most decisive and most successful WW2 battles that had the most impact upon later military and political events, and indeed the outcome of the war itself…

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The wartime SAS and Hitler’s drug addiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Churchill's army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Operation Barbarossa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Burma, March 1944. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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When Britain tamed ‘superman’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A brief history of camouflage

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The Battle of the Atlantic and the history of Spain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hurricane fighter planes taking off from Gravesend after being refuelled and rearmed, during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A dead German soldier during the Antwerp offensive

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The LibraryArdennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

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The unsung heroes who won the war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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VE Day special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hitler and his general staff

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1945: The race for Berlin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Kamikaze pilot scores a direct hit on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean, c1942. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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The reluctant kamikaze of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American forces advance through the Ardennes forest during the battle of the Bulge. (Photo by George Silk/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s final gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Red Army tank drivers on a street in the city of Rakov, Poland

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1939: When Poland was torn to pieces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Pain through the prism of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The LibraryD-Day: James Holland answers your questions

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D-Day and the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Monte Cassino and revolutionary Russia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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The LibraryJohnnie Walker: U-boat hunter in the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A crew of Dambusters pictured together in c1943. The famed Dambusters raid, Operation Chastise, was an RAF attempt to breach German dams and so "deprive Ruhr industry, and the Mittelland Canal of water, over the longest period of time possible". (Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ IWM via Getty Images)

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The legacy of the Dambusters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British soldiers in Normandy. Though Goodwood cost the British some 200 tanks, infantry losses were relatively light, says Mark Urban. (Capt. E G Malindine/IWM via Getty Images)

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Operation Goodwood: one of the biggest British disasters of the Second World War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration depicting the battle of Naseby, arguably one of the most significant land battles in British history. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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20 important battles that shaped Britain

A view of Valletta during the Second World War, showing its harbour filled with naval hardware. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The LibraryBritain's island weapon: Malta in the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British soldiers on the front of El Alamein. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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El Alamein: The British empire's last hurrah. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Industrial might: Blenheim bombers in production in England, late 1939. The Allies’ combined industrial strength proved too much for the Axis. (Getty Images) 

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'Tirpitz' hiding in a Norwegian fjord in 1942. “She outclassed anything in the British fleet,” says Patrick Bishop. (Getty Images) 

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The Second World War: sinking the Tirpitz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Guy Gibson (centre) with members of his squadron. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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The triumph of the Dambusters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English soldiers in the ruins of Palmyre in charge of taking over the Syrian Territory occupied by Vichy’s France. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The untold Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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