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147 - The battle of Mandalay in WW2

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147 - The battle of Mandalay in WW2

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147 - The battle of Mandalay in WW2

Tue, 18 Aug 2026
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145 - Nagasaki bomb

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144 - World War Two’s Rome escape line

Mon, 09 Jun 2025
143 - VE Day celebrations

Thu, 08 May 2025
142 - The death of Adolf Hitler

Fri, 25 Apr 2025
141 - Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal

Mon, 21 Apr 2025
140 - 'I wrote Schindler's List'

Thu, 16 Jan 2025
139 - The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

Thu, 09 Jan 2025
138 - The Purple Heart Warriors

Wed, 11 Dec 2024
137 - The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto

Thu, 07 Nov 2024
136 - Saving lives on D-Day

Thu, 06 Jun 2024
135 - The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day

Wed, 05 Jun 2024
134 - The 'comfort women' of World War Two

Wed, 20 Mar 2024
133 - The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Fri, 15 Mar 2024
132 - French child evacuees of World War Two

Tue, 05 Mar 2024
131 - The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis

Mon, 12 Feb 2024
130 - Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?

Wed, 24 Jan 2024
129 - Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis

Tue, 23 Jan 2024
128 - Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor

Mon, 22 Jan 2024
127 - Japan surrenders in China

Wed, 19 Jul 2023
126 - Lee Miller in Hitler's bath

Mon, 12 Jun 2023
125 - Last communist march before Hitler

Thu, 08 Jun 2023
124 - The Dambusters

Wed, 17 May 2023
123 - German child evacuees of World War Two

Tue, 16 May 2023
122 - World War II victory in North Africa

Fri, 12 May 2023
121 - Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Thu, 11 May 2023
120 - Families interned in WW2 China

Thu, 23 Feb 2023
119 - Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps

Tue, 28 Feb 2023
118 - Shanghai at War

Thu, 19 May 2022
117 - World War Two child evacuees in Britain

Mon, 19 Sep 2022
116 - China and Japan at War

Mon, 17 Dec 2018
115 - Britain's secret propaganda war

Wed, 06 Nov 2019
114 - Broadcasting D-Day

Thu, 06 Jun 2019
113 - D-Day

Tue, 04 Jun 2019
112 - The Arnhem Parachute Drop

Thu, 20 Sep 2018
111 - Berlin's Rubble Women

Mon, 03 Dec 2018
110 - The Climbers of Leningrad

Thu, 28 Dec 2017
109 - The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives

Wed, 25 Oct 2017
108 - Saving Italy's Art During WW2

Wed, 11 Oct 2017
107 - Britain's Land Girls

Tue, 26 Sep 2017
106 - The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials

Mon, 21 Aug 2017
105 - The Sinking of the Lancastria

Fri, 16 Jun 2017
104 - The Roma Victims of the Holocaust

Tue, 23 May 2017
103 - The Katyn Massacre

Tue, 11 Apr 2017
102 - The Germans Occupy Prague

Thu, 16 Mar 2017
101 - Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan

Tue, 13 Dec 2016
100 - Soviet Woman Bomber Pilot

Tue, 06 Dec 2016
99 - Italy's Partisan Fighters

Mon, 05 Sep 2016
98 - The Fall of Paris

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