BBC World Histories - 10.2019 - 11.2019
The last great global conflict ended three-quarters of a century ago – yet still casts a long shadow over international politics ...
KEITH BARNES History is still current affairs in China. Whether it’s the thoughts of Confucius or the legacy of the violent Opiu ...
Æ GETTY IMAGES Helen Fry is a historian and author. Her latest book is The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation ...
JEFF OVERS In 2017 – shortly before Remembrance Day, 11 November (known in the United States as Veterans Day) – the Guardian col ...
GETTY IMAGES/ALAMY Jews in the Łód ́z ghetto, established by the German occupiers of Poland in February 1940, from where tens of ...
AJ LEVY/ALAMY/GETTY IMAGES British prime minister Winston Churchill writes a greeting message on a shell. His actions during the ...
We can’t escape the grip of the Second World War, because the overall global architecture was created in its wake. Nor should we ...
In February 1945, Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt met in the Crimea to discuss how to bring about a swi ...
Æ British prime minister Winston Churchill, US president Franklin D Roosevelt and Soviet premier Josef Stalin pose for photograp ...
“Stalin had his secret police bug Roosevelt and Churchill” S talin was probably the best prepared of the three leaders at Yalta. ...
BRIDGEMAN Æ Position of power A Soviet armoured division advances along the river Oder into Germany in January By the time the ...
“Churchill spoke of leading Europe’s people to ‘sunlit plains of peace’ ” O f the three leaders at Yalta, Churchill most energet ...
BRIDGEMAN Æ Uneasy understanding Roosevelt and Churchill huddle together during the Yalta Conference. Churchill had energeticall ...
R oosevelt, most frail of the three leaders, had two main aims at Yalta : securing Soviet entry into the war against Japan and e ...
United we stand US president Harry S Truman addresses delegates at the United Nations Conference on International Organization i ...
GETTY IMAGES HOW WOMEN Wagons roll A woman drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or ...
ÆÆ WON THE WEST Karen R Jones reveals why the 19th-century American frontier story needs to be rewritten with an expanded cast o ...
Women of the American West I n 1854, a card sharp from the east of the United States, going by the name Dumont – possibly from N ...
ALAMY Æ Women stretched the limits of convention, changing their costume, habits and daily activities to fit the needs of the tr ...
GETTY IMAGES distribution, could receive title to 160 acres of land as heads of household as long as they were over 21, paid the ...
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