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20th Century
The Unique Wartime Experience of the Channel Islands During World War Two
When Was VE Day, and What Was It like to Celebrate It in Britain?
How the Royal Navy Lost Control of Its Own Air Power
Why Did the Luftwaffe Struggle to Fight at Sea?
How Did German Soldiers View World War Two in 1945?
The Early Years of Bombing – How Did it Develop?
The Murder That Defeated Whitechapel’s Sherlock Holmes
The Mental Health Impact of World War Two on British Sailors
What Were the Liberty Ships and How Did They Help Win the Second World War?
How the Royal Navy Fought to Save Estonia and Latvia
10 Facts About the Deadly 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic
How Thousands of Civilians Were Killed by British Shells in the London Blitz
Not Our Finest Hour: Churchill and Britain’s Forgotten Wars of 1920
Why Did the Republicans Lose the Spanish Civil War?