Military history

Soldiers of the Soviet Union

Second World War

Did the Soviet Union win the war?

An aerial view of Wilton House

Going Dutch: the Glorious Revolution of 1688

West Kent Territorial Army

Second World War

One hundred years of voluntary service

English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-94), author of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The decline and fall of the British Empire

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow

The repulse of a sortie during the Siege of Delhi, a conflict of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The rebels advance on a British battery, who repel them with swords, bayonets and rifles. A lithograph by E. Walker, after a drawing by Captain G. F. Atkinson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The myth of native-bashing

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Second World War

The Library Pivotal points of WWII

A flight of Vickers Wellington long-range bombers, used by the Royal Air Force to undertake raids into Germany and elsewhere, 8 February 1940. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Second World War

Second World War bomber boys

Scenes From The Great War 100 Years On

First World War

The Somme: a terrible learning curve

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Wearing your allegiance

New recruits march alongside armed officers following the outbreak of the First World War. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

First World War

‘What a terrible thing is war’