First World War

Vera Brittain, who worked as a nurse during the First World War and went on to become one of the leading writers of the interwar years. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Australian troops head for Gallipoli in 1915

The myths of the battle of Gallipoli

The Spring Offensive, 1918. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Germany’s final gamble

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Science and suffrage

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British 40th Division tanks transporting captured German guns from the battle of Cambrai. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

First World War

5 tanks that changed the course of the First World War

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The Spanish Flu pandemic . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Journey’s End: behind the scenes of the new First World War film . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The ruins of the Canadian port of Halifax in the wake of the explosion in December 1917. Almost 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured when two ships collided at the height of the First World War. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

Catastrophe in Canada

A British soldier uses a searchlight to spot German aircraft during the Second World War. Britain has lived with the fear of invasion for several centuries, a fact reflected in its architecture, its art and its people’s mental health. (Photo by David Savill/Getty Images)

The Library The island fortress fallacy

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The British soldiers who fought for Germany in the world wars

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No Man’s Land: Women photographers in the First World War