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A battle of wills: why the South lost the American Civil War

President Abraham Lincoln visiting soldiers encamped at the Civil War battlefield of Antietam in Maryland, 1 October 1862. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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A US soldier teaching two junior 'rookie' recruits how to clean a gun during the First World War

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British Indian soldiers stand at attention prior to inspection at Singapore, December 1941. (Photo by Alamy)

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Nationalist troops escort captured Republican militia during the Spanish Civil War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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A young visitor looks at a painting depicting the Amritsar Massacre

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A Royal Air Force fighter squadron 'scrambles' after receiving the signal to engage the enemy during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by William Vandivert/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Scottish soldier and Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1861 - 1928) visiting the troops during the First World War. (Central Press/Getty Images)

First World War

Field Marshal Haig: a man much misunderstood?

Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce in 'Outlaw King'. (Photo by Netfix / David Eustace)

Medieval

Robert the Bruce: what do we know?

Prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A painting of the Amritsar massacre. While Churchill described the killings as "without precedent", MP Benjamin Spoor said: "Amritsar is not an isolated event, any more than General Dyer is an isolated officer." (Photo by AKG Images)

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Bill Edwardes, who at the age of 16 joined the army to fight during WW2.

Second World War

The boys who lied about their age to fight in WW2

A colour illustration of First World War allies, the German Reich and Austria-Hungary, featuring soldiers shaking hands, their troops and national flags, c1915. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

First World War

Q&AWho was involved in the First World War? Who was on each side?

Captain James Lawrence of the Chesapeake is wounded

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An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

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The Zimmermann telegram: the telegram that brought America into the First World War

A sculpture of Genghis Kahn

Medieval

The brutal brilliance of Genghis Khan

The crew of ‘Mi Amigo’. The pilot, 23-year-old Lt John Kriegshauser, can be seen in the front row, far left. (Photo courtesy of Sheffield County Council via American Air Museum in Britain)

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Battle of Verdun. French trench on the front lines, 1916. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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Code-breaking personnel at Bletchley Park, 1943. (Photo by Bletchley Park Trust/SSPL/Getty Images)

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BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker with Tony Foulds, 82, who for nearly 75 years has tended the memorial of 10 US airmen who were killed when their B-17 crashed in Endcliffe Park in Sheffield in February 1944. Tony witnessed the crash as an eight-year-old boy. (Photo courtesy of Dan Walker)

Second World War

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Russian troops hoist the red banner of the Soviet Army after Stalingrad

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Miniature from a Persian manuscript depicting Genghis Khan's funeral

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Q&AWhere was Genghis Khan buried?

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

Cold War

Did the Cold War ever really end?

Winston Churchill. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The Bomber Command Memorial in London, which was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. (Photo by Epics/Getty Images)

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c60 AD, Queen Boudica of the Iceni holding a spear. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 

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Herbert Hasler, one of the Cockelshell heroes, seen here at work on his sloop at the Don Fuller boatyard, Bosham, Sussex. 1st March 1966. (Image by Getty)

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American Flying Fortress bombers and a Mustang fighter practise formation flying over England, training for rain that would help break Nazi resistance. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

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A Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) is approaching Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 6th June 1944. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

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Photograph of the Wounded British Soldiers at the Battle of the Somme. Dated 1916. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

First World War

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of the Somme

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