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From abandoned structures that have long ceased to take you anywhere to today's feats of engineering, Bridges is a pictorial celebration of 150 suspension bridges, iron bridges, stone bridges, aqueducts,...

At its peak in January 1945, 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, reading 4000 messages a day, decrypting German and Japanese communications and helping the Allies to victory. But while...

US Marines made an immense contribution to winning the war in the Pacific in World War II, with 458,000 men serving in the Corps. They made 26 successful invasions in...

The Third Reich had the most technologically advanced and innovative weapons industries in World War II, with aircraft, tanks and bombs that could match and beat anything else in the...

How were agents recruited for secret operations in World War II? How did they fare once dropped behind enemy lines? How effective were resistance movements? And how brutal were the...

'I trust no one, not even myself.' - Joseph StalinThug, armed robber, activist, revolutionary, tyrant - we know the headlines, we know about the atrocities, but what do we really...

"Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds."Knights were the ultimate warriors in European warfare for a period of almost 500 years. From the mid eleventh...

The history of Pan American Airways is, to a great degree, the story of international air transport and, within that, the flying-boat is one of the airliner's most recognisable aircraft.The...

The 'Thousand Year' Reich actually lasted from January 1933 until May 1945, but in that time Germany underwent radical transformation. The Third Reich 1933-1945 examines the Third Reich, from its...

Warplanes of World War II provides a detailed look at 50 key aircraft in service between 1939 and 1945. Warplanes profiled include fighters, bombers, fighter- bombers, ground attack and other...