Military history

Soldiers at the battle of Arnhem

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9 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of Arnhem

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

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Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

Jan Žižka, the general whose peasant army defied the Holy Roman Empire in the 1420s.

Christ’s communists: the radical religious sect that challenged the Holy Roman Empire

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BBC History Weekend in York.
Henry Hemming.

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“There’s nothing essentially new about fake news”: 5 minutes with Henry Hemming

The battle of Agincourt, 1415

True-to-scale battle numbers and 15th-century life: look inside the revamped Agincourt museum

Sir Max Hastings. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

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Sir Max Hastings: “While the Dambuster raid’s strategic impact was almost nil, its propaganda value was immense”

Crusaders defeat the Turks at Dorylaeum in 1097, as shown in a 14th-century illumination

Crusaders: did they fight for God or gold?

The 1993 film ‘Schindler’s List’. (AF Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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7 must-see Second World War films

Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Poland, 1939: World War Two begins

The Byzantines and a flamethrower

General ancient history

Q&A What was Greek fire?

Adolf Hitler watches German troops march in central Poland

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Roger Moorhouse: How Hitler’s diplomatic miscalculation led to WW2

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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America and WW2: when, how and why did the US get involved, and why they didn’t enter sooner?

The siege of Sevastopol

Q&A Why did Britain fight the Crimean War?

A newspaper seller at the start of WW2

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Countdown to WW2: the 72 hours that took the world to war

South Vietnam 1967: Battle weary U.S. soldiers pause for a moment's rest after some of the bloodiest fighting of the Vietnam War (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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War trauma