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Max Hastings by Fran Monks
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Max Hastings on the Dambusters . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and their daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret of United Kingdom. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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The Windsors at war: what did the royal family do during WW2?

Archduchess Ileana’s great grandmother, Queen Victoria, whose birth certificate Ileana desperately needed to get hold of (Getty) 
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Queen Victoria and the Nazis: the strange tale of the search for the royal family’s Aryan origins

Chancellor Adolf Hitler with President Paul von Hindenburg, Berlin, 1 May 1933
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Hitler’s millionaire backers: how Germany’s elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis

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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” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Neil MacGregor photographed in London. “It seemed a good juncture, as Britain sets to leave the EU and operate alone on the world stage, to get a sense of how other countries view us,” he says. (Image by Chris McAndrew)
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Neil MacGregor: “A consistent element of Britain’s image has been the lonely fighter standing against foreign tyranny” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Adolf Hitler watches German troops march in central Poland
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Roger Moorhouse: How Hitler’s diplomatic miscalculation led to WW2

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Brendan Simms photographed by Ian Farrell
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Hitler’s war with Anglo-America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A newspaper seller at the start of WW2
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Countdown to WW2: the 72 hours that took the world to war

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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 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Pearl Harbour attack
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The 11 most significant battles of WW2

Franklin D Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill
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Secrets of Churchill’s War Rooms