Need to Know
All you Need To Know about a range of topics from D Day, Pearl Harbour and The Battle of Rorke’s Drift to Leonardo Da Vinci, the explorer Shackleton and scientist Charles Darwin. Need To Know places them in their historical and social context, giving you the key players, the key events and their chronology and the key dates. In ...
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The Battle of Hastings
All you need to know about The Battle of Hastings - the decisive Norman victory in the Norman Conquest of England
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Panzer Tanks
All you need to know about Panzer Tanks - the infamous German tank
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D-Day
All you need to know about D-Day - the first operation of the Allied invasion of Normandy
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The Battle of the Somme
All you need to know about The Battle of the Somme - one of the largest Battle of the First World War.
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Stuka Dive Bomber
All you need to know about The Stuka Dive Bomber - the German ground attack plane of World War II
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The Battle of Rorke’s Drift
All you need to know about The Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British troops defended their garrison against over 4,000 Zulu warriors in one of the finest defences in military history
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The Battle of Waterloo
All you need to know about The Battle of Waterloo - the defeat that ended Napoleon Bonaparte's rule as Emperor of the French
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Operation Valkyrie
All you need to know about Operation Valkyrie - the German resistance plot to assasinate Hitler and arres the Nazi leadership
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The Battle of Stalingrad
All you need to know about The Battle of Stalingrad - the battle between Germany and Russia for the control of Stalingrad, often cited as one of the turning points of World War II
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The Emperor Napoleon
All you need to know about Emperor Napoleon - the French military and political leader who had a huge influence on European history
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The Battle of Agincourt
All you need to know about The Battle of Agincourt - at Agincourt English troops defeated a much larger French force as part of the Hundred Years War
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The Battle of Gettysburg
All you need to know about The Battle of Gettysburg - a turning point in the American Civil war
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The Battle of Verdun
All you need to know about The Battle of Verdun - the longest, and one of the most critical, battles in World War I
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The Battle of Britain
All you need to know about The Battle of Britain - the sustained effort of the German Luftwaffe to gain air superiority over the RAF during the summer and autumn of 1940
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Dunkirk
All you need to know about Dunkirk - the enormous evacuation of British and allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk between 26th May and 4th June 1940
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The Battle of the Bulge
All you need to know about The Battle of the Bulge - A major German offensive of World War II, in the Ardennes Mountian region
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Rommel
All you need to know about Rommel - the most famous German Field Marshall of World War II
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Pearl Harbour
All you need to know about Pearl Harbour - the devastating Japanese attack that brought the United States into World War II
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Toulouse Lautrec
All you need to know about Toulouse Lautrec - one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period
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Robert E Lee
All you need to know about Robert E Lee - the exceptional American military leader who lead the Confederate troops in the American Civil War
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Shackelton
All you need to know about Shackleton - the heroic Polar explorer
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Alexander the Great
All you need to know about Alexander the Great - the greatest military leader of all time, who conquered most of the world
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Charles Darwin
All you need to know about Charles Darwin - the English naturalist who wrote "On the Origin of the Species", introducing the concept of Natural Selection to the world
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Leonardo Da Vinci
All you need to know about Leonardo da Vinci - the Italian painter, and one of the most intelligent men to have ever lived
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The Atomic Bomb
All you need to know about the atomic bomb - the weapon that changed the world
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Kamikaze
All you need to know about Kamikaze - the Japanese pilots of World War II who undertook suicidal bombing missions
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Oliver Cromwell
All you need to know about Oliver Cromwell - the leader of the Roundheads in the English Civil War
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The Battle of Berlin
All you need to know about The Battle of Berlin - one of the final battle of the European theatre of World War II
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