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On the 80th anniversary of the end of the War in the Pacific, Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours is offering two new WWII…

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Napoleon: rise of a military colossus

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: U-Boat on Hastings beach, April 1919

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The 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers (3rd Cavalry Brigade) advancing from the Marne to the Aisne, September 1914 Keith Robinson studies the aesthetics…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Spectators at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919

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This poignant image is evidence of the miles of utter devastation caused when the world’s second atomic bomb was dropped on the…

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