Military history

British soldiers guard an oil pipeline, leading from Iraq to Palestine, at the Kishon river, in what is now Israel, in 1941. When Baghdad was retaken, the flow of oil was restored. (Image by Bridgeman)

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The (forgotten) Iraq war

French cuirassiers charging a British infantry square at the battle of Waterloo, 1815 (1906). From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. V. (Cassell and Company Limited, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne). Artist P Jazet. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

How the French won Waterloo (or think they did)

Portrait of Sultan Saladin (1566-1568) by artist Cristofano Dell'Altissimo (1525-1605) (Photo by Getty Images)

The life of Saladin

A portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, aka 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. (Photo by National Galleries Of Scotland/Getty Images)

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites

Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Edward Burns in 'Saving Private Ryan' (1998), directed by Steven Spielberg. (Photo by Dreamworks LLC /Paramount Pictures)

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D-Day on screen: 5 TV and film depictions of the Second World War operation

6 June 1944: American troops during the Allied invasion of France on D-Day (Photo by Getty Images)

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A new view of D-Day

Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer on Juno Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day landings, 6 June 1944. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Your guide to D-Day: what happened, how many casualties were there, and what did it accomplish?

(Image by Bettmann/Getty)

10 photographs that made history

A painting depicts a 14th-century sea battle

Medieval inspiration: what the fantasy genre owes to the 14th century

Night view of people jammed into Times Square, New York, celebrating the end of the war in Europe. (Photo by Herbert Gehr/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty

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Was 1945 the world’s year zero?

Second World War soldiers learning bayonet skills.

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The road to D-Day: the masterplan

Members of a British parachute regiment consult their maps during a training exercise just weeks before D-Day. Training was intensive – and dangerous. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post /Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Library The road to D-Day: getting ready for action

The killing zone: This photograph by Robert F Sargent, known as ‘Taxis to Hell – and Back – into the Jaws of Death’, shows American troops wading towards Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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D-Day: 24 hours that changed the world

Canadian troops go ashore on D-Day

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“Free people everywhere should remember them”: the Canadians’ role in D-Day