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Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice

Photo of a poppy growing in a preserved WWI trench

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Q&A Did the Somme offensive achieve anything?

Mont Saint Michel (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France

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My favourite place: Janina Ramirez

American assault troops debark from their landing craft at a beachhead on D-Day. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Q&A D-Day: How did a weather forecast change the fate of the war?

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French writer and futurist Jules Verne. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Jules Verne (1828–1905) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The Library Britain and France: Empires under fire

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A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, c1796. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Books interview with Michael Broers: “You don’t have to make up myths about Napoleon’s youth – just look at his letters to see evidence that he was a great leader” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Watercolour painting of the Battle of Agincourt

Q&A Who paid for the arrows in the Battle of Agincourt?

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Army recruits take the oath in White City, London, December 1914. “Creating an army more or less from scratch was a recipe for disastrous losses,” claims Niall Ferguson. (Getty Images)

“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of a bomb

Q&A What was the Battle of the Herrings?

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A stained glass depiction of Yolande of Aragon. (Creative Commons)

My history hero: Yolanda of Aragon (d1442) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Troops on a night raid during the First World War

Jeremy Paxman: “The war finished Britain off in many respects” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Christmas card from the First World War

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First World War Christmas cards

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination prompted the outbreak of the First World War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.