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A joint operation between Britain and France the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain ter..

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On 16 December 1944 Hitler launched his “last gamble” in the snow-covered forests of the Ardenne..

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Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated..

In 1943 German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be forme..

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In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..

In 1914 Vera Brittain was 18 and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four year..

In 1948 a man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide Australia. Well-dressed and unmarked he h..

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Setting out for a family day in Devon nine-year-old Keira Ball suffered catastrophic brain injuries ..

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