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THE DEVIL'S PORRIDGE
During World War I, Britain's female workforce rallied to the war effort, joining munitions and weapons factories. Some of this work was notoriously hazardous...
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LEGACY OF THE CORPS
Despite being at its largest in December 1918, the MGC reduced significantly and swiftly after the armistice and subsequent treaty
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SHIROYAMA
A final showdown pitting a rebellious samurai clan against a Westernised army of Japanese conscripts launches a new Asian empire
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HOW TO FIGHT A WAR Q+A WITH DR MIKE MARTIN
The former British Army officer and senior visiting fellow at King's College London reveals how and why wars are fought, from the ancient world to Ukraine and beyond
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WWII THIS MONTH...FEBRUARY 1943
To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, History of War is taking a look at some of the key events during each month of the conflict
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'WE HAVE THE MAXIM'
Early machine guns were used by British forces during the 'Scramble for Africa' but the British Army was slow to fully realise their lethal potential
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF...T.E. LAWRENCE
In late 1916, a little-known archaeologist arrived in the Red Sea port of Jeddah. What started as a trouble-shooting mission would transform the Middle East
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GOING INTO LOCKDOWN
Helen Carr explores the measures used across the centuries to curb the spread of the deadliest disease in human history
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WHAT IF...HANNIBAL HAD TAKEN ROME?
Professor Greg Woolf talks to Nige Tassell about what might have happened to Rome and the Romans had the Carthaginian military mastermind managed to conquer the city
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PUNISHMENT FROM ON HIGH
An unshakeable certainty that the plague was God's punishment for sin led to desperate, and terrible, measures
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SHERMAN THE MAKING OF A WAR WINNER
The M4 Sherman medium tank was produced in huge numbers during WWII and became the Allies' most prominent yet controversial land weapon of the conflict
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GRIEF AND DESPERATION
The Black Death triggered untold panic across Europe, causing people to desert their loved ones and seek out scapegoats
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Heroes of the Victoria Cross ERNEST 'SMOKEY'SMITH
In October 1944, as the Allies fought to establish a bridgehead across Italy's Savio River, a roguish private challenged an armoured column
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MOUNTED & MOTORISED
In October 1915 the Cavalry and Motor branches were created to be more mobile than the infantry brigade companies
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DESERT ARMOUR TANK WARFARE IN NORTH AFRICA
FROM BEDA FOMM TO OPERATION CRUSADER 1940-41, THIS THOROUGH STUDY OF ARMOURED WARFARE IN THE WESTERN DESERT IS A WORTHY ADDITION TO ANY ENTHUSIAST’S SHELF
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JIHADI POLITICS
A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BLOODY INFIGHTING WITHIN THE GLOBAL JIHADI MOVEMENT THAT SET AL-QAEDA AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE, WITH CONSEQUENCES THAT ARE STILL FELT TODAY
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THE SHADOW OF DEATH DESCENDS
Originating in eastern or central Asia, plague ravaged Europe - and people were helpless to stop it spreading
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ANGLO-MYSORE WARS
From the 1760s to the 1790s, the East India Company fought a series of conflicts against the Kingdom of Mysore. The kingdom’s final defeat in 1799 greatly _ assisted the British in their eventual domination of India
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CHURCHILL'S AMERICAN ARSENAL
A METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED CELEBRATION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN WARFARE BROUGHT ABOUT BY ANGLO-AMERICAN COOPERATION IN WORLD WAR II
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ANGLO-MARATHA WARS
This series of conflicts bet een the British East India Company and the Maratha Confederacy stretched over 40 years. The eventual destruction of the Confederacy helped Britain tighten its grip on subcontinent
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ANGLO-SIKH WARS
Between 1845-46 and 1848-49 two conflicts were fought between the forces of the East India Company, supported by troops from the British Army, and those of the Sikh Empire in the Punjab
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NEED TO KNOW WORLD WAR II AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE
A FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO HOW THE UNITED STATES DEVELOPED ITS CODEBREAKING AND SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS DURING THE GLOBAL CONFLICT
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THE GREATEST VIKING: THE LIFE OF OLAV HARALDSSON
A FINE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR MOST DISTINGUISHED POPULAR HISTORIANS
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FIVE HISTORY LESSONS FOR PUTIN
Dr Mark Galeotti is an honorary professor at University College London's School of Slavonic & East European Studies and has published numerous books on Russian security, foreign policy and state criminality. An expert on the Russosphere, both past and present, his latest book, Putin's Wars, analyses how President Vladimir Putin's military campaigns have reshaped the nation and the world. In light of Russia's globally condemned invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, here he gives his assessment of the lessons that the president ought to have learned from his country's own military history, from Nicholas II to Ivan 'the Terrible'.
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ROAD TO REBELLION
How the Duke of Monmouth tried in vain to rescue his nation from the oppressive clutches of James II
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COMPANY ARMIES
The East India Company’s formidable private armies were vital to the expansion of British interests in the subcontinent
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LAST STAND OF THE WAFFEN-SS
In the closing months of the war in Europe, the Waffen-SS fought desperately to secure Hitler victory. When they failed he disowned them
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HERSHEL 'WOODY' WILLIAMS
In February 1945, as US Marines struggled to overcome lwo Jima’s relentless Japanese defenders, a 21-year-old corporal silenced seven pillboxes to help turn the tide of the battle
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LEE MILLER
Among the most iconic and acclaimed photojournalists and correspondents of the Second World War, Miller went from the front page of Vogueto the frontline of the Normandy invasion
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JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR: THE UNION ARMY
THE EXPERIENCES OF JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE UNION ARMY COME INTO FOCUS IN THIS COMPREHENSIVE BOOK
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