The charge of the light, battle illustration

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Nate Mann as Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal in Apple TV+ WW2 drama Masters of the Air

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French Resistance fighters sabotaging the Marseille-Paris railway in Romanèche (Saône-et-Loire), on August 30, 1944.

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Masters of the Air. (Photo by Apple TV+)

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Austin Butler as Major Gale Cleven in Apple TV+ WW2 drama Masters of the Air

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The real Gale Cleven: who was Buck in Masters of the Air?

Callum Turner as Major John C Egan in Apple TV+ WW2 drama Masters of the Air

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The real John Egan: who was Bucky in Masters of the Air?

Callum Turner as John Egan and Austin Butler as Gale Cleven in Masters of the Air

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A fight between two Gladiators, in mosaic

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Illustatration of the siege of Syracuse, showing Archimedes' cranes used to destroy Roman ships

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Allies in retreat from Austerlitz

Austerlitz: how Napoleon crushed the Austro-Russian army

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British infantry shelter in trenches

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Trench tactics: how was war fought in the WW1 trenches?

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Soldiers in First World War uniform eat in the trenches

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A French soldier pictured next to wrecked German lorries.

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An older man sitting against a desk, looking towards the camera.

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A portrait of the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) during the Napoleonic Wars. Although Waterloo was "undeniably the most pivotal battle of this campaign", it was not the final battle against France, says Jem Duducu. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The taking of Jerusalem by the Crusader

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A fifteenth century manuscript illustration showing the Knights Templar being burned in the presence of King Philip IV of France.

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Robert the Bruce addresses his troops ahead of Bannockburn in a 20th-century engraving.

Why is the battle of Bannockburn remembered as Scotland’s greatest victory?

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Overwhelming odds and inevitable invasions: 3 myths surrounding the Battle of Britain

A relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman troops crossing the Danube during the war against the Dacians. Victory was the framework upon which Pax Romana was built (Photo by akg-images/Erich Lessing)

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Men of the 23rd US Infantry in France, 1918. The Western Front w ould not have even come into existence had the Schlieffen Plan been executed successfully. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A c1943 photograph of USS Indianapolis. Built in New Jersey, the Portland-class heavy cruiser was launched in 1931 (Photo by US Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS Indianapolis

A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945, a bombed-out building in the foreground

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What happened to Hiroshima after it was bombed in 1945? How many people died?

J Robert Oppenheimer (left), and Cillian Murphy

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