Military history

Prisoners of War from the Allied forces eating food after being liberated from a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in Taiwan (Formosa), 1945 (Photo by Getty Images)

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Prisoners of the Japanese

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

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My history hero: Michael Morpurgo chooses Krystyna Skarbek

London burns behind Tower Bridge on 7 September 1940

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Days of destiny: 5 key dates in the Battle of Britain

A Hawker Hurricane in flight over Britain

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Your guide to the Battle of Britain: how the RAF turned back the Luftwaffe

Henry I proclaims Matilda as his heir

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An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

Illustration shows James IV ceding his crown following defeat at the battle of Flodden. (Picture by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

Your guide to the battle of Flodden 1513

London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

Rationing, school closures and ‘Blitz spirit’: how did people cope in WW2?

AFS firemen tackle a blitz fire amidst the rubble surrounding St Paul's Cathedral, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Blitz, plus 9 places affected by the bombings

Police and railwaymen assist some of the 800 evacuee children as they leave Ealing Broadway station, London, for the country on 1st September 1939 (Photo by Getty Images)

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Britain goes to war

Appia Antica (The Appian Way), Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe. (Getty)

Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?

Rjukan Hydro Plant

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Spying in WW2: how wartime espionage was just as dramatic as fiction

A portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler

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Why did the Second World War happen?

WW2 surrender signed, 2 September 1945

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How and when did the Second World War end?

Isabella of France welcomed by her brother Charles IV to Paris. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Hundred Years’ War, but were afraid to ask