Battles

Pivotal military engagements that have decided the fates of nations.

Gallipoli

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Dieppe

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Dunkirk

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Battlefields of Belgium

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Arnhem

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
What was the worst military decision in history?

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Why did de Gaulle hate the English?

Al Murray Why Does Everyone Hate the English
Win a copy of D-Day by Michael Noble

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Win a copy of The Volunteer, a story of resistance at Auschwitz

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Japanese soldiers pose next to a bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen after capturing Shanghai: Wikipedia.
The story of the Royal Ulster Riflemen and the battle of Shanghai

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The Three Greatest Viking battles

The Real Vikings
Into the jaws of death' | US troops disembark from a LCVP craft onto Omaha beach 6 June 1944
The largest seaborne invasion in history: The story of D-Day

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Portrait of Toussaint Louverture, foreground and painting 'The Battle at San Domingo' by January Suchodolski, background
Toussaint Louverture and the birth of Haiti

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Left: British infantry at El Alamein, right: German soldiers at Stalingrad | Wikipedia
The most decisive battles of WW2

Hitler
What if D-Day had failed?
What if D-Day had failed?

Hitler
Charles Lightloller
The Second Officer who survived Titanic and saved 130 lives at Dunkirk

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Win a copy of Renia's Diary, a new classic in Holocaust literature

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The siege of Barnard Castle and the River Tees

River Hunters
Heinkel He 111 bombers during the Battle of Britain
WW2's greatest air battles

Hitler
Survivors from the Sobibor uprising
The Sobibor death camp uprising of 1943

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The Easter Rising: the spark that ignited a nation

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Devastators of VT-6 aboard USS Enterprise, 4 June 1942
The greatest naval battles of all time

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The Russian Revolution set the stage for Joseph Stalin (pictured).
The Russian Revolution, a Century On

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Old Town Market Place
The destruction of Warsaw: the Nazi plan to obliterate a city

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Battle of Falklands 1914, William Lionel Wyllie,
The Empire Strikes Back: The First Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914

WW1
The Battle of Cannae: 'one of the most pivotal battles in Western history'

Ancient History
The Battle of Hastings

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The Battle of Isandlwana painted by Charles Edwin Fripp, background and Zulu king, Cetshwayo, forground, painted by Karl Rudolf Sohn
The Battle of Isandlwana and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879

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