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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

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Back to school and Hitler’s schemes for war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Hitler’s secret weapon

Operation Barbarossa, which began on 22 June 1941, saw more than three million German troops surge into the Soviet Union along a front of more than 1,000 miles. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Barbarossa and Britain

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In search of the Dunkirk spirit

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The Library Old and new - a look at the Merchant Navy and modern-day western supremacy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British evacuees from Dunkirk walk off their rescue vessel land in Britain. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

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Where history happened: Dunkirk

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The Battle of Marathon plus Dunkirk and WWII refugees . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler makes plans at his headquarters in Bruly-de-Peche, Ardennes, Belgium. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Library The fall of France: Hitler’s greatest gamble

A group of Belgian refugees fleeing upon the arrival of German troops on the roads, 21 June 1940. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The war grave warriors

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D-Day and the Templar on trial . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers of the Soviet Union

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Did the Soviet Union win the war?

West Kent Territorial Army

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One hundred years of voluntary service

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The Library Pivotal points of WWII . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A flight of Vickers Wellington long-range bombers, used by the Royal Air Force to undertake raids into Germany and elsewhere, 8 February 1940. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Second World War bomber boys