Second World War

the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

The unsung heroes who won the war

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

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Magna Carta and the Holocaust . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women wearing unrationed shoe soles during the war

Dressed for war: fashions of the Second World War

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Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’

Huts in Lambeth built for bombed-out families, 1945. (Getty)

Britain in 1945: Life in the shadow of victory

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Britain’s love/hate relationship with ‘foreigners’ during the Second World War

Hitler and his general staff

1945: The race for Berlin

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Stalin’s early years and Mein Kampf . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Kamikaze pilot scores a direct hit on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean, c1942. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The reluctant kamikaze of the Second World War

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Student radicals and Crete in WWII . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British statesman and writer Winston Churchill, aged 26. Photograph by Elliott & Fry. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Books interview with Boris Johnson: “Churchill was a tremendous bully in some ways, but we needed a bully”

American forces advance through the Ardennes forest during the battle of the Bulge. (Photo by George Silk/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s final gamble

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