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  Western

  1939

  German soldier in Poland
  A German soldier reveals some of the terrible atrocities committed in Poland.

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  Pacific

  1945

  The decision to drop the bomb
  The decision to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan in August 1945 remains controversial. Why was it taken?

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  Pacific

  1942

  British Prisoner of War
  Captured by the Japanese in early 1942, he endured several years of horrendous imprisonment.

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  Eastern

  1942

  Churchill meets Stalin in Moscow
  Churchill had made the arduous journey to Moscow to try and deal with Stalin’s anger that the ‘Second Front’ – the Western Allies' planned landing in France – would not take place until 1943 at the earliest.

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