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The Dambusters' mission is of enduring fascination and appeal. The breaching of the dams in Germany’s industrial heartland was to have a pivotal effect - a triumph for Allied thinking and courage...
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Available 03/05/2012
In the summer that saw the first successful flight of the Zeppelin, a 140 acre site of scrubland in West London was transformed into the White City, which housed the 1908 Franco British Exhibition...
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After Charles I was beheaded in 1649 his son the future Charles II vowed vengeance on his father’s killers, promising ‘We shall …by all ways and means possible pursue and bring to their due...
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Admiral John Byng was shot on the deck of his ship, the HMS Monarch, at 12pm on 14 March 1757. His offence was nothing more than following the orders of his superiors. Having ignored warnings of an...
Available 12/04/2012
‘There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles’, so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder...
Available 05/04/2012
No less than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of an Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history; a story dazzlingly rich in...
The Second World War was entering its darkest period when Allied intelligence revealed there were new horrors in store, and this time they were targeting civilians on home soil, no less. A secret...
Available 29/03/2012
The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police and internal...
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Ravensbruck Concentration Camp is the worst atrocity ever committed solely against women, but today the name of the camp is barely known. From Ravensbruck's earliest days, when Himmler offered his...