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Eighteen-year-old awarded Victoria Cross

Air battle over Britain peaks

Enduring the Unendurable: Japan in the First Weeks After Defeat

Invasion postponed

Steady response to Italian invasion

A murderous plan to capture secrets

Churchill: Invasion Risk High

Hospitals bombed

Italian forces invade Egypt

The morning after the night before

'Target London'

First Day of the London Blitz

British adjust to life in shelters

Churchill realistic about threat to Britain

Hitler orders 'Terror Raids'

Joining the 'Guinea Pig' club

German troopship sunk

The Jews suffer in Poland

Polish pilots join battle

'Enemy Sighted'

Baling out with a shot up parachute

Churchill visits 'Hellfire Corner'

RAF airfields near crisis

Head on attack on bombers

Berlin bombed

'Sailor: Battle Of Britain Legend'

The 'Murder Raid' on Ramsgate

'Shot down and in the drink'

Churchill seeks aid from Roosevelt

British Morale "Excellent"

" Never in the field of human conflict..."

Bad weather disrupts Luftwaffe attacks

'The Hardest Day'

'In Furious Skies'

'In Furious Skies'

Churchill's invasion response strategy

Fighter Command's only VC

The end of the war in the Pacific

The Luftwaffe's Black Thursday

USAAF bombs Japan again

'Sneak raiders' hit RAF airfields

Bomber Command- Heroism and Disaster

A narrow escape at Manston

The Camel Corps defend Observation Hill

'The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis'

Huge rise in Aircraft Production

Destroyers on A/S Patrol

The battle for Convoy Peewit

Exhaustion takes its toll

Hiroshima - a new age begins

'Stay Put' if invasion comes

RAF Fighters at 'Readiness'

Watching the battle overhead

'The Breaking Storm'

Hitler orders a final attack on the RAF

Bloody Wednesday in Olkusz

Tragedy of the torpedoed Indianapolis

Hitler wants to attack Soviet Russia

A Yankee in a Spitfire

Potsdam - the end of the war in Europe

Butt collecting in Berlin

Churchill falls from power

Truman approves use of Atom bomb

A final battle for Japan?

Trinity and Potsdam

'Waves' of aircraft attack Dover

Hundreds drown as neutral ship sunk

British uninspired by Foreign Secretary

Hitler buys loyalty with promotions

Hitler starts Naval invasion planning

'The Role Of Intelligence In The Battle Of Britain'

C-in-C Home Defence replaced

Hitler 'appeals to reason'

All of Britain now on 'Active Service'

The Glorious Few

Hitler orders Operation Sealion

Brighton's first air raid

The spectacle of the 'dogfight'

'Spitfire!'

Aberdeen air raid kills dozens

Churchill visits the front line

The Battle of Britain 'officially begins'

The Battle of Calabria

Morale is high in Britain

Becoming 'war conscious'

'Faces from the Home Front'

Persecution of Jews intensifies

'Making Ready for the Battle of Britain'

Churchill's rhetoric triumphs again

Royal Navy attacks the French Fleet

The Tragic loss of the Arandora Star

Children killed in first raid

The Channel Islands are occupied

The 'thin crust' on the coast

German invasion expected soon

An American in Paris

Arrested as an 'Enemy Alien'

The Germans triumphant

The 'Battle of the Alps' ends

The British face up to the invasion threat

Ritual suicide for Okinawa commanders

Hitler tours Paris

Forming the Home Guard

France divided as Armistice signed

Hitler humiliates the French

Air Attacks on Britain begin

"He gives bad news frankly"

The coming 'battle of Britain'

De Gaulle 'nothing is lost for France'

Britain's worst Maritime Disaster

'For you the war is over'

Blitzkrieg Tactics

British forces to leave France

The Germans enter Paris

The Germans are close

Highland Division Captured

Churchill tries to stem French despair

Italy's 'Stab in the Back'

French Army outflanked

'The Dunkirk Evacuation in 100 Objects'

Disaster as HMS Glorious sunk

Allies withdraw from Norway

German advance spreads panic

The Wehrmacht turns west

"We shall never surrender"

French fight on at Dunkirk

Still time to get more men out

Stuka pilot over Dunkirk

Last stand on the Dunkirk perimeter

Dunkirk evacuation speeds up

Hundreds die as rescue ships are sunk

'We shall go on and we shall fight it out'

Massacre at Le Paradis

The last day in Calais

Okinawa civilians struggle on

The BEF under pressure

The siege of Calais begins

Confused fighting in Boulogne

Falling back in France

Heroism on 'Hacksaw Ridge'

'Arras Counter-Attack 1940'

The British retreat accelerates

'Be ye men of valour'

The Red Army in Berlin

Most of the Wehrmacht are far behind

A bloody hold on Ishimmi Ridge

"Very grave days indeed."

'Destination Dunkirk'

The unrelenting German advance

Terror bombing of Rotterdam

Nothing but "blood, toil, tears and sweat"

Outgunned RAF begin to suffer

'Eben-Emael'

Refugees clog Belgium roads

Hitler attacks in the West

No end to the war on Japan

Victory in Europe Day

News leaks of German surrender

POWs fly home as Germans delay peace

US troops still in combat

Russia holds Eastern Europe

Tragedy as 'Nazi Titanic' sunk

Last dogfight over Germany

Germans begin to surrender

First civilian deaths in England

Despair and Suicide in Germany

Hitler shoots himself

US troops liberate Dachau

Hitler marries Eva Braun

Eva Braun's last days

Italians get their revenge

Nazis continue to believe in victory

Spearheading the Allied advance

Perilous times for German citizens

Berlin descends into a nightmare battle

Breakout and pursuit in Italy

Irish Guards - courageous to the end

'Halbe 1945"

Hitler's birthday as Soviet shells hit Berlin

Coming to terms with the Germans

Facing the Soviet assault on Berlin

Churchill pays tribute to Roosevelt

First British POWs liberated

Bergen-Belsen liberated

The US Army advance in Italy

The Second Battle of Narvik

The Gardelegen Atrocity

Buchenwald "beggars description"

The rape and loot of Konigsberg

First major ship sunk by dive bombers

Looting and fraternisation in Germany

Denmark and Norway invaded

The last big attack in Italy

Death of a Danish hero

World's largest battleship sunk

Allied infantrymen in northwest Europe

Slave Labourers released

Snipers and men without officers

The Wehrmacht falls back

Horror of war on Okinawa

Two heroic Bren gun attacks

Last amphibious assault in the Pacific

Me-262s jets ambush Lancaster bombers

'Hitler's Final Fortress'

The aftermath of rocket attacks in Britain

Germany's Future

Street fighting in a German town

'Fire and Movement'

The forward platoon makes contact

Brief but deadly German resistance

Airborne assault across the Rhine

'Jayhawk'

First wave across the Rhine

The Pacific Fleet readies for action

'Maximum Effort' from Medium bombers

House-to-house fighting forces SS retreat

Heroic Fight to save USS Franklin

Hitler seeks Götterdämmerung

Kuribashi prepares for his end

'The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion'

The Fate of a Mid Upper Gunner

Japanese go underground in Burma

The reality of 'Air Superiority'

Japanese sadism towards POWs

Nazi faithful still believe in victory

Kamikaze pilots find Ulithi

Escape from burning Danzig

'Death March into Russia'

Deadliest bombing raid ever

Mounting Casualties on Iwo Jima

The Bridge at Remagen

The Allies enter Germany

Soviet tanks smash into civilians

Nazis recruit children to fight

Five Medals of Honor on Iwo Jima

Panzers on the Vistula

Closing with the enemy in Burma

Young men replace casualties

Bombing of Germany reconsidered

The fate of Poland

First kill in Germany

Canadians overcome Fallschirmjäger

The Nazi Party celebrates 25 years

'Children’s Propaganda Games'

Raising the Flag on Mount Suribachi

In the special custody of the SS

Fatal error over Germany

Fanatical resistance in Festung Breslau

Marines land on Iwo Jima

Surprise assault on Riva Ridge

The Only Way Out

'The Battle of Manila'

The bombardment of Iwo Jima

POW in the hands of the SS

Surviving in Dresden

Firestorm in Dresden

The Sandakan Death Marches

Pinned down in a ditch

Infiltrating American lines

'Fighting Through to Hitler's Germany'

Mustang v Me 109

Operation Veritable

US infantry overwhelm 'Waffen SS'

Close encounter with a suicidal 'Jap'

The 'Big Three' at Yalta

Resistance stiffens in the Philippines

The Mighty Eighth hit Berlin again

'Hitler Fortresse's in the East'

Vernichtung! in Sachsenhausen

Lucky to be wounded

The Execution of Eddie D. Slovik

Worst-ever loss of life at sea

Wehrmacht on the run

London still under threat

Auschwitz liberated

'Screams of the Drowning'

Last stand on a burning tank

Tension in Stalag Luft III

The race to the German border

The reality of the 'Asiatic hordes'

Auschwitz in deathly limbo

Two kamikazes hit USS Ticonderoga

Another day, another infantry attack

'Children’s Propaganda Games'

Across the Irrawaddy

Young soldier's valiant attack

Cut off and surrounded

Norwegian Resistance sinks ship

Beginning a 1000-mile march

Red Army crashes German lines

German troops trapped in the Ardennes

'Soviet Infantryman on the Eastern Front'

Night attack in the snow

Preparing to plunder Germany

Narrow escape for B-24 crew

Watching and waiting in the snow

Three Medal of Honor heroes

82nd Airborne counter attacks

Hit by second kamikaze in two days

'The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front'

Red Army prepares to attack again

Sudden death in London

Paratroopers vs Tigers

'Near perfect' area bombing

Desperate Luftwaffe surprise attack