Military history

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

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Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

A Royal Air Force fighter squadron 'scrambles' after receiving the signal to engage the enemy during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by William Vandivert/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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A brief history of the Royal Air Force

A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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“There was no feeling sorry for themselves”: director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War

Captain Lewis Edward Nolan, 15th Hussars, the Crimean War, 1854. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The Charge of the Light Brigade: who blundered in the Valley of Death?

The battleship USS California (centre) following the attack at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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12 things you (probably) didn’t know about Pearl Harbor

The 1993 film ‘Schindler’s List’. (AF Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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7 must-see Second World War films

Napoleon Bonaparte, published in London, 1909. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Napoleon Bonaparte: facts about his life, death and career

American Flying Fortress bombers and a Mustang fighter practise formation flying over England, training for rain that would help break Nazi resistance. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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The Library The Allies’ big idea: the largest air battle of the Second World War

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The attack on the Malakof – print shows the French assault on the Malakof, the main Russian fortification before Sevastopol. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington DC)

Your 60-second guide to the Crimean War

A Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) is approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6th June 1944. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

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Tales from D-Day

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

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting a naked man with an erection reaching out towards a naked woman, who is covering both her face and her pudenda with her hands. (© Bayeux Museum)

The Bayeux Tapestry with knobs on: what do the tapestry’s 93 penises tell us?

A wounded soldier of Company K, 110th Regiment Infantry, receives first-aid treatment from a comrade in Varennes-en-Argonne, France, 26 September 1918. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

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First World War soldiers: life after the Armistice

A colour illustration of First World War allies, the German Reich and Austria-Hungary, featuring soldiers shaking hands, their troops and national flags, c1915. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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Who was involved in the First World War? Who was on each side?