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With the Axis in the ascendancy in North Africa and optimistic of taking the Suez canal, the battles of El Alamein were ...

Find out how engineer and drilling expert Craig Tester has helped in the hunt for buried treasure on Sky HISTORY series The ...

Discover the heroic stories of key figures from Britain’s fearless World War 2 commandos and their remarkable contributions ...

The grim details of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster of 1184 are not for the faint of heart. Discover the full story of one of history's grossest tragedies.

One of these individuals was Marcel Petiot, a French doctor who is thought to have murdered between around 60 and 200 people ...

We take a look back at the life and legacy of Pope Francis, whose love and compassion earned him the moniker the ‘People’s Pope’ ...

The Burma Railway is one of many grim legacies of the horrors of WWII. Discover the story of how it was constructed and its ...

In December 1942, the brave heroes of Operation Frankton took to kayaks to attack one of the world’s most heavily guarded ...

The Sunday that Easter falls on is usually the first Sunday that follows the Paschal Full Moon. This is the first full moon ...

From both sides of the war and all around the world, captured soldiers, sailors and airmen dared the impossible to win their ...

Dr. Marcel Petiot, a respected French doctor and town mayor—who was also a violent psychopath. During World War II, as Nazi ...