Second World War battles

Crew members of the French destroyer Bourrasque, sunk by mine at Dunkirk, are hauled aboard a British vessel from their sinking life-raft. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dunkirk: 6 big questions on a remarkable rescue mission

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Germany’s World War Two . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Test pilot Melitta Schiller (right), Berlin, June 1943. (Photo by DRK/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The women who flew for Hitler: an interview with Clare Mulley . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Library Female flyers in Nazi Germany . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An older couple is watching a Canadian soldier with a bulldozer working in the ruins of a house in the rue de Bayeux.10th July 1944. The church towers in the background have survived the Allied bombing intact. Caen, Normandy, France. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

D-Day: the successes and failures in focus

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

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

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The wartime SAS and Hitler’s drug addiction . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Churchill’s army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined

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

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Burma, March 1944. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

When Britain tamed ‘superman’

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A brief history of camouflage

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The Battle of the Atlantic and the history of Spain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hurricane fighter planes taking off from Gravesend after being refuelled and rearmed, during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few

A dead German soldier during the Antwerp offensive

The Library Ardennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble