The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

War, peace & cherry trees: finding hope after WW2.

Churchill's evolving perspective on D-Day.

Dwight D Eisenhower: life of the week.

Photographs of some of the victims of the 1944 Nazi massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane

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Oradour-sur-Glane massacre: the brutal SS atrocity that still haunts France

Map showing departure points for British troops ahead of the Normandy Landings on D-Day

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D-Day beaches map: where were the D-Day landings?

Woman reads about the D-Day invasion in a newspaper

The women’s work that made D-Day a success.

From the USA's 'good war' to Britain's 'great hurrah': how is D-Day remembered around the world?.

D-Day: Land.

D-Day: Sea.

Video podcastMasters of the Air: the real history behind the show.

British Army National Service recruits

National Service: here's what you need to know about the history of Brits being conscripted into the Armed Forces

A Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) approaches Omaha Beach, Normandy on D-Day (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

"Hitler slept through D-Day", plus four other facts about the Normandy Landings you might not know....

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D-Day: Air

Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis.

An African samurai: the tall, strong African man who acquired the name Yasuke in Japan was at first an object of curiosity but soon became a prized samurai warrior serving a powerful warlord in the violent intrigues that wracked the country during that volatile era. ((Illustration by Lynn Hatzius for BBC World Histories)

Who is Yasuke? The true story of the African who became Japan's first black samurai

Guadalcanal: WW2's greatest battles.

WW1's Eastern Front: the forgotten theatre of war?.

Jonah Hauer-King in The Tattooist of Auschwitz series

The Tattooist of Auschwitz: is it ok to fictionalise the Holocaust?.

The Registration Room in Hut 6, Block D, Bletchley Park. (Courtesy of Bletchley Park)

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How did Bletchley Park shape the success of D-Day?

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El Alamein: WW2's greatest battles.

The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know.

Battle of the Atlantic: WW2's greatest battles.

Stalingrad: WW2's greatest battles.

David Lloyd George: life of the week.

Battle of Britain: WW2's greatest battles.

A black and white photo of Thomas Boston Corbett in front of a blurred drawing of the killing of John Wilkes Booth

Thomas ‘Boston’ Corbett: the man who killed Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth

The neutral USA entered World War II only when a Japanese fleet launched a big surprise air raid against its Pacific naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 7 December 1941. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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When and why did the US get involved in WW2?

A statue of Thutmosis III

Ancient armageddon: the battle of Megiddo that led to the rise of a great warrior-pharaoh.

History Behind the Headlines: the Bengal famine.

Is the Eastern Front the forgotten theatre of World War One?.