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Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.
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The WW2 obsession: why the world can’t move on from 1945

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Max Hastings by Fran Monks
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Max Hastings on the Dambusters . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers at the battle of Arnhem
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9 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of Arnhem

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The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden
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Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

Jan Žižka, the general whose peasant army defied the Holy Roman Empire in the 1420s.
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Christ’s communists: the radical religious sect that challenged the Holy Roman Empire

The battle of Agincourt, 1415
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True-to-scale battle numbers and 15th-century life: look inside the revamped Agincourt museum

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Sir Max Hastings. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)
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Sir Max Hastings: “While the Dambuster raid’s strategic impact was almost nil, its propaganda value was immense” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crusaders defeat the Turks at Dorylaeum in 1097, as shown in a 14th-century illumination
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Crusaders: did they fight for God or gold?

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Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Poland, 1939: World War Two begins . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Adolf Hitler watches German troops march in central Poland
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Roger Moorhouse: How Hitler’s diplomatic miscalculation led to WW2

Engraving depicting Chinese opium smokers in a saloon
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What caused the First Opium War?

The siege of Sevastopol
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Q&A Why did Britain fight the Crimean War?

A newspaper seller at the start of WW2
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Countdown to WW2: the 72 hours that took the world to war

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South Vietnam 1967: Battle weary U.S. soldiers pause for a moment's rest after some of the bloodiest fighting of the Vietnam War (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)
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War trauma . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Pearl Harbour attack
Second World War

The 11 most significant battles of WW2