Plataea 479 BC: The most glorious victory ever seen

Storm of Steel

Wabash 1791: St Clair’s defeat

The Fall of English France 1449–53

The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice.

Metz 1944: Patton’s fortified nemesis

Somme Mud

The Fall of the Philippines 1941–42

The Falklands 1982: Ground operations in the South Atlantic

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

Demyansk 1942–43: The frozen fortress

Borodino 1812: Napoleon’s great gamble

A World Undone

Santa Cruz 1942: Carrier duel in the South Pacific

A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East

Coronel and Falklands 1914: Duel in the South Atlantic

Vercors 1944: Resistance in the French Alps

The Mareth Line 1943: The end in Africa