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Military history

The American War of Independence: Three Films

General Sir Douglas Haig (left) and Sir Henry Rawlinson are largely to blame for the failure of the battle of the Somme, says historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore. (Photos by Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

The British generals whose infighting lost the battle of the Somme

US president Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shake hands at a summit in Singapore on 12 June 2018. (Photo by Handout/Getty Images)

The Trump-Kim summit of June 2018: what did it really achieve?

Edward I in parliament with the Archbishop of Canterbury; King Alexander III of Scotland; the Welsh Prince Llywelyn ab Gruffydd and the Archbishop of York. From the Wriothesley MS, 1523, published in ‘The Island Race’, a 20th-century book written by Sir Winston Churchill covering the history of the British Isles from the pre-Roman times to the Victorian era. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Edward I: man of principle or grasping opportunist?

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

A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain

Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years' War

Australian troops head for Gallipoli in 1915

The myths of the battle of Gallipoli

Norsk Hydro's Vermork plant

The Special Operations Executive: Churchill's secret army

Thomas Becket

The LibraryEngland’s forgotten civil war

Norman cavalry charge the enemy in this detail from the Bayeux Tapestry. Debate rages over the pros and cons of the tapestry leaving France for the first time in more than 900 years. (Photo by Photo 12/Getty Images)

Will the Bayeux Tapestry actually come to Britain?

The Vietnam War on film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ‘Princes in the Tower’

The 5 greatest mysteries behind the Wars of the Roses

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

8 of Britain’s best battlefields

Adolf Hitler in uniform. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The Third Reich’s nuclear programme: Churchill’s greatest wartime fear

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

Henry VIII “regarded his wars as the worthy successors of the great martial victories of England’s past”, says Steven Gunn. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

The LibraryTotal war in Tudor England

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

Germany’s final gamble

The Marshall Plan and the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

Britain’s secret wartime prison. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scythians: the art of war

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Field Marshal Bill Slim

My history hero: Field Marshal Bill Slim (1891-1970). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill leaves a cabinet meeting

Churchill’s days of destiny

1917: The world at war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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 LibraryThe island fortress fallacy

Blitz

Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz: how did everyday Britons rebuild their lives?

The British soldiers who fought for Germany in the world wars