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Historian Margaret Macmillan

“To destroy a library is to erase part of the cultural memory of humankind”: Margaret MacMillan on war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

France. Massacre of Vassy. Murder of Huguenot worshipers and citizens in an armed action by troops of Francis, Duke of Guise, in Wassy, France on 1 March 1562. Starting of French Wars of Religion. Engraving. (Photo by: PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Huguenots vs France: who were the Huguenots and what did they believe?

Mixed signals: A shortwave radio listening post in California, set up to report and translate broadcasts from Asia. (Photo by AP/Shutterstock)

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Caught off guard: why didn’t America see Pearl Harbor coming?

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Launching site for V2 rockets in Germany during World War 2. (Photo by Getty Images)

Robert Harris on V2, historical fiction and WW2 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

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Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

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Laurence Rees Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Trojan Horse – seen in the 2004 film Troy

How much of the legend of Troy is real?

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German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

Germans who resisted the Nazis . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boys playing conkers in 1926. Horse chestnuts played an unlikely role in the war effort just a few years earlier. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Did conkers help win the First World War?

Positions of Allied transport ships, their escorts and enemy U-boats were marked on the floor by teams of Wrens (Scott McIntosh)

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‘Real life battleships’: the secret game that countered German U-boat attacks during WW2

An allegory of France in 1870

Franco-Prussian War: the conflict that plunged Europe into a nightmare

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Margaret MacMillan is professor of History at the University of Toronto and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University. (Photo by Getty Images)

War and society: a tangled relationship . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Bayeux Tapestry 1667: William the Conqueror's Norman cavalry setting out to meet Harold II's English forces, Battle of Hastings, 14 October 1066. Textile Linen (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe

Queen Elizabeth II at Falkland Islands remembrance service 2007

Was the Queen opposed to the Falklands War?

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

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