The global war

Ruins of Hiroshima shortly after the dropping of the atomic bomb. (US Air Force/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Timeline: the countdown to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

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A British sergeant measure the chest sizes of Indian men

Books interview with Yasmin Khan: “By the end of the war, few people in the Raj believed it could continue to exist” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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India at war and mining accidents . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Second World War

Kamikaze pilots and Captain John Smith . 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)

The reluctant kamikaze of the Second World War

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Student radicals and Crete in WWII . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“Being in a prison camp was better than going to a British boarding school”: child hostage of Japanese in WW2 reflects on his experience

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Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

The Library D-Day for God? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Residents of Chongqing on the streets of their bombed-ravaged city in the autumn of 1940. China's temporary wartime capital was subjected to 218 Japanese air raids between May 1938 and August 1941, costing nearly 12,000 lives. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

China’s forgotten Second World War

LA Times photo from newspaper report 1942

A big day in history: Japanese planes attack Los Angeles. Or do they?

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

El Alamein: The British empire’s last hurrah