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GETTY IMAGES/ MAP ILLUSTRATION: PAUL HEWITT, BATTLEFIELD DESIGN and passageways inside the hills that allowed the defenders to m ...

Shot down A kamikaze plane goes down in flames while attempting to attack USS Wake Island, 3 April 1945. The Japanese also launc ...

Fight to the death Marines look on as dynamite charges explode among Japanese caves. The vast majority of Okinawa’s 110,000 defe ...

mother – recalled: “We tried to use rope at first, but in the end we hit her over the head with stones. I was crying as I did it ...

object,” he wrote, “is to save as many American lives as possible but I also have a human feeling for the women and children of ...

From the makers of From the Vikings to the Space Race, the story of humankind is entwined with our search for what lies over the ...

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Ellie Cawthorne: You argue in the book that celebrity is a slippery concept. How do you define it? Greg Jenner: When I began wri ...

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villains, and on the flipside were the bad boys – the highwaymen and criminals. Though we don’t know who he was, I would call Ja ...

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Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox William Collins, 528 pages, £25 In Strange Antics, Clement Knox sets out ...

MARINA CAVAZZA FROM FACT TO FICTION Hiking into history Petina Gappah on her new novel that charts a mammoth journey across 19th ...

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