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MUKDEN, MANCHURIA, CHINA 23 FEBRUARY – 10 MARCH 1905

Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f

Before the sun rose over the windswept pampas on the morning of 20 September 1835, the stillness of Porto Alegre was broken by the thunder of hooves and gunfire. A band of rebels launched a daring ass

Matt Elton Your new series, exploring fighting on the Asian front during the Second World War, is called The History Podcast: The Second Map. Why did you choose that name? Kavita Puri It came to me af

Going all the way back to the beginning for a fresh start

Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the sur vivors’ stories