The charge of the light, battle illustration

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Quiz - Would you have been accepted to join the army and fight in WW1 in August 1914?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A colour image of military guns during World War One

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The First World War in colour

The global First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail of a fresco of Hannibal riding his elephant. It is estimated he took as many as 40 elephants when he marched an army across the Alps and into northern Italy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many elephants did Hannibal take over the Alps?

First World War

10 things you (probably) didn't know about the bloody eastern front in 1914

Photo of a poppy growing in a preserved WWI trench

First World War

Q&ADid the Somme offensive achieve anything?

The World War Two French resistance and British holidays. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AD-Day: How did a weather forecast change the fate of the war?

A Nobel Prize, a 3,600-mile voyage and the battle of Marengo: 3 things that happened On This Day 14 June

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Bid to uncover battle of Hastings remains

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James Clerk Maxwell, Israeli troops and John Dickens: 3 things that happened On This Day 13 June

The legacy of the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

Pain through the prism of war

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Richard I, the Falkland Islands and John Scott Russell: 3 things that happened On This Day 8 June

Second World War

The LibraryD-Day: James Holland answers your questions

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"If I don't come home": letters from a D-Day captain

Napoleon in exile

Q&AWhy was Napoleon exiled to St Helena?

D-Day and the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benito Mussolini makes a speech. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The LibraryThe spies who hunted Mussolini

A coal mine explosion, the birth of Nancy Witcher Langhorne, and the first Briton in space: 5 things that happened On This Day 19 May

First World War

Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

Monte Cassino and revolutionary Russia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Ian Morris

Books interview with Ian Morris: "War can be a productive force in that it produces larger, more peaceful societies". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The LibraryBritain and France: Empires under fire

The value of war and the rail revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the 1963 film 'Naked Among Wolves', depicting a Nazi concentration camp

The long shadow of Adolf Hitler

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Command and Control

A view of Þingvellir National Park in western Iceland. It was here, in AD 930, that Viking settlers established the first pan-Icelandic assembly – possibly the oldest parliamentary body in the world. (© Dreamstime)

Vikings: A land without kings

Photo of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

Q&AHow did the world go to war in 1914?

Escaping the Blitz and recording the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.