August 2014 cover

August 2014

Articles from the August 2014 issue of BBC History Magazine

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

Membership

The French resistance during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman

The bloody rise of Augustus

An American recruitment poster. “US forces showed an impressive ability to learn at speed,” says Nick Lloyd. (© Getty)

Membership

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

A photograph of a crowd in Berlin celebrating Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany's proclamation of war against Great Britain, August 1914. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Membership

The Library1914: Countdown to catastrophe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Archaeologist Howard Carter opens the coffin of Tutankhamun. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Ancient Egypt

How did Tutankhamun die?

Portrait of Hendrik Witbooi

Membership

My history hero: Hendrik Witbooi (born c1830). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kathryn Ferry, UK seaside expert in Hastings, East Sussex

Membership

History explorer: The interwar holiday revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. (Getty Images)

Ancient Greece

My favourite place: Delphi, Greece

An illustration of a Tudor street

Membership

“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.