Military history

German prisoners of war

Second World War

What would you have done? 6 terrible choices people had to make during the Second World War

Jews stand with hands up before German soldiers

Second World War

The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland

A still from Sam Mendes film '1917'

First World War

“A staggering tour de force – but an opportunity missed”: a historian’s review of the film 1917

A despatch rider during WW1, as featured in new Sam Mendes film '1917'

First World War

The real trench runners of WW1

Ayatollah Khomeini

General ancient history

A brief history of Iran

Peronne, March 1917

First World War

Operation Alberich: the story of Germany’s retreat in 1917

B-17 bombers make their way to England to aid the British in WW2, April 1942. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

From Allies to enemies

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

William the Conqueror (1027–87), king of England from 1066 when he beat Harold II at the battle of Hastings. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

9 surprising facts about William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest

A vintage colour postcard, possibly produced to send Christmas greetings from the frontline, somewhere on the Western Front, during the First World War, c1918. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

First World War

Christmas 10 ways Christmas was celebrated during the First World War

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

First World War

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

Stretcher bearers at Passchendaele

First World War

The forgotten triumphs of Passchendaele

German submarine on mission in the Atlantic ocean, 1942/1943 (Photo by ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

World War Two’s secret heroes

The battleship USS California following the attack at Pearl Harbor

Second World War

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

Pearl Harbor sparked an aircraft-manufacturing drive – and, for the first time, allowed US women to perform jobs previously held only by men. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Pearl Harbor aftermath: the fallout from the attack