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Military history

Second World War

The Coventry Blitz – Q&A with historian Frederick Taylor

First World War

Britain’s Chinese army.

The Last Kamikazes.

El Alamein battle in the Libyan desert, c1942. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

El Alamein: the line in the sand.

Tales of war.

Dunkirk: 6 big questions on a remarkable rescue mission.

Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Rivoli

Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest triumphs and disasters

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.

The LibraryVoices of the Cold War.

The LibraryFemale flyers in Nazi Germany.

Churchill on film: the challenges of portraying a Second World War icon.

The USS Liberty arriving for repairs following the attack by Israeli warplanes and motor torpedo boats

Why did Israel attack the USS Liberty?.

The crews of Israeli armoured vehicles during the waiting period before the beginning of the Six-Day War. (Photo by David Rubinger/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Six days that shook the Middle East.

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.

The Six-Day War and the Great Fire of London.

Civil wars and Restoration England.

Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927

China’s public image war.

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War

The end of El Salvador's civil war.

America in World War One and a naval tragedy.

Two members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps find another use for discarded helmets in France during the First World War. (Alamy)

Female Tommies: women in the First World War.

First World War

In pictures: Zeppelin raids on First World War Britain

War: the locomotive of history?.

British reenforcement land on 'Gold Beach' for the big push into the Normandy town of Caen

An eyewitness account of the Normandy landings, France, 1944.

The Tibetan plateau lies at an altitude averaging over 4,500 metres above sea level

In the footsteps of Sir Francis Younghusband's 1903 invasion of Tibet.

The impact of war and a zoological institution.

Parson's Lodge Battery in Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Gibraltar

The Battle of Britain.

The USS Arizona burning in Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack. To the left of her are USS Tennessee and the sunken USS West Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How did the rest of the world react to the attack on Pearl Harbor?.

The attack on Pearl Harbor and physics through the ages.

Photo of gauntlets

Q&AWhy do we say throw down the gauntlet?