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All serious scholarship on ancient Sparta has to be conducted within the penumbra of the ‘mirage Spartiate’, a French term coined in 1933 to describe the problem posed by idealised accounts of Sparta.

The jungle warfare in the Far East was both a tactical and political challenge for British forces in WWII

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In 1945, the Allies were ready with a daring amphibious operation to liberate Jersey and Guernsey by force

Capturing the immediacy of fighting and the writhing bodies of soldiers, as well as keeping narrative clarity, proved enormously difficult for painters depicting battles before the advent of photography. Michael Hall reveals how they rose to the challenge