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Nigel Jones and Neil Faulkner take opposing sides in the long-ranging and recently re-energised debate over who was responsible for the outbreak of…

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

U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships…

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In May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he had been exiled…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: captured Luftwaffe crewmen, London Underground, 1940

In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

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The region of Meaux came dangerously close to being occupied by the advancing German army in September 1914. The German onslaught had…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Prague Spring, 1968

Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: B-52 storage area, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

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The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Inchon Landings, Korea, 1950

This photograph, taken by American reporter and war correspondent Marguerite Higgins, shows the second assault-wave landing on the northern side of Red…

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