Military history

Launching site for V2 rockets in Germany during World War 2. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Robert Harris on V2, historical fiction and WW2

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

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Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

The Trojan Horse – seen in the 2004 film Troy

How much of the legend of Troy is real?

German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Germans who resisted the Nazis

Boys playing conkers in 1926. Horse chestnuts played an unlikely role in the war effort just a few years earlier. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Did conkers help win the First World War?

Positions of Allied transport ships, their escorts and enemy U-boats were marked on the floor by teams of Wrens (Scott McIntosh)

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‘Real life battleships’: the secret game that countered German U-boat attacks during WW2

The USS West Virginia burns at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

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What if… Japan hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor

Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E5 real history: Michael Fagan’s Buckingham Palace break-in and the Falklands crisis

Margaret MacMillan is professor of History at the University of Toronto and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University. (Photo by Getty Images)

War and society: a tangled relationship

British Royal Navy Type 21 frigate HMS Antelope explodes in San Carlos Water, off East Falkland, after attacks by the Argentine Air Force during the Falklands War, 24 May 1982. (Photo by Martin Cleaver/Pool/Getty Images)

The Falklands War: when was it fought, why did it happen and how was it won?

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Bayeux Tapestry 1667: William the Conqueror's Norman cavalry setting out to meet Harold II's English forces, Battle of Hastings, 14 October 1066. Textile Linen (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe

Queen Elizabeth II at Falkland Islands remembrance service 2007

Was the Queen opposed to the Falklands War?

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Holocaust

Max Hastings on the HistoryExtra podcast

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The story of the Dambusters

Silence in Piccadilly Circus, London as people commemorate the anniversary of the end of the First World War. (Photo by Daily Mail / Rex Features)

First World War

From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today