Second World War

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Second World War

The Library D-Day: James Holland answers your questions

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Second World War

“If I don’t come home”: letters from a D-Day captain

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The Library The spies who hunted Mussolini

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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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D-Day landings and the original singing dog: top 10 British Pathé videos

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The long shadow of Adolf Hitler

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Was the burning of the Reichstag the Nazis’ first crime?

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When Hitler’s perfect woman came to call

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

History’s most surprising statistics

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“Being in a prison camp was better than going to a British boarding school”: child hostage of Japanese in WW2 reflects on his experience