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Photo showing a snowy Wounded Knee, where US troops massacred the Lakota Sioux, with bodies visible in the foreground

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The 1993 film ‘Schindler’s List’. (AF Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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The Spanish Armada which threatened England in July 1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Watercolor Painting Depicting Battle of Agincourt (Photo by © Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A 15th-century manuscript depicts soldiers using crossbows during the Battle of Crecy in 1346

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Photo of members of the Versailles Conference

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US heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis receives a medal during WW2

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Soviet infantrymen charge in a counter offensive during the battle of Moscow, 1941.

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The USS West Virginia burns at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941

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Winston Churchill (left) with Charles de Gaulle, c1944. The British prime minister encouraged Vichy’s colonies to rally to the Free French leader. (Getty Images)

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The battleship USS California following the attack at Pearl Harbor

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A Japanese photograph shows Mitsubishi dive bombers warming up on the deck of a carrier in the Pacific before their attack on Pearl Harbor in the early hours of 7 December 1941. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

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Wehrmacht soldiers on parade, 1937

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Winston Churchill delivering his famous 'iron curtain' speech at Westminster College

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The Great Army attacks the East Anglian town of Thetford in this illuminated manuscript from 'The Life of Edmund'. Viking pikemen scale the ramparts on ladders

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A Marine M4 Sherman tank uses flails to detonate mines

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West Indian recruits lift logs in training at a WW2 air base

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A painting showing British troops advancing on Ulundi, mountains in the background

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