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Britain has still 22 countries to invade

Unfinished business? The 22 countries worldwide that Britain's not yet invaded

According to a new study, of the 193 countries in the world, Britain has invaded all but 22. The figures come from a new book by Stuart Laycock called All the Countries We've Ever Invaded and counts everything from full-scale invasions – Afghanistan – to piratical expeditions backed by the government – Ecuador.

Red Army troops storm a building, and German prisoners, below, during the Battle of Stalingrad

Revealed: The forgotten secrets of Stalingrad

It was the bloodiest battle of World War Two – so brutal the Soviet Union suppressed the truth. Now it has been revealed

Field Marshal Rommel, second from right, in North Africa in 1941

Row over film that portrays Rommel as more rat than fox

Account relies on Holocaust-denier, say critics

German and Turkish officers pose with the skulls of Armenian victims

Photograph links Germans to 1915 Armenia genocide

Newly discovered picture shows Kaiser's officers at scene of Turkish atrocity

Moneyed Few - The Top 10: 1. Mansa Musa I of Mali (1280-1337) <b>$400bn</b>

Forget Bill Gates, the richest man in history lived in Mali... 700 years ago

He was a despot who ruled swathes of West Africa and made a fortune from salt and gold. Now, Mansa Musa I has been named the wealthiest (inflation adjusted) man of all time

Mansa Musa I of Mali

Meet Mansa Musa I of Mali – the richest human being in all history

A new study has produced an inflation-adjusted list of the richest people of all time

Genocidal German dictator and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945), centre, stands with Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda and their three oldest children, left to right, Hilda, Helmut, and Helga

Words of warning: Goebbels' love letters reveal tyrant in the making

Anti-Semitic poems and essays written by future Nazi propaganda chief to go on sale

US 'helped Russia cover up Second World War Katyn Forest massacre'

'Potentially explosive' declassified documents reveal that the Roosevelt administration knew of the Soviet atrocity

Sir Henry Morgan

Could Captain Morgan be about to resurface?

Panama wreck might solve mystery of the 17th-century buccaneer

Allied troops pick their way through the shattered town of Cassino

New film pays tribute to forgotten heroes of Monte Cassino

Key Second World War battle left 200,000 dead or injured – but was overshadowed by D-Day

Passengers in the film Titanic. An unusually high proportion of women and children were saved in the disaster

Women and children first? It's every man for himself on a sinking ship

It is the unwritten law of the sea but the idea of women and children first when a ship is sinking is a myth, according to a study of 18 maritime disasters where the prevailing attitude is best summarised as "every man for himself".

Researchers reveal the real austerity Olympics: The political refugee games of 1948

It was the real austerity Olympics. Whilst the rest of the world's top athletes were asked to bring their own towels and handed out Horlicks tablets by the authorities in London 1948, the spirit of the Games was being enacted in even more Spartan surroundings than the bombed out British capital.

Austria: Medieval bras rewrite history

Four medieval bras have been found among textiles excavated from a castle, confounding conventional wisdom that bras did not exist before the 19th century.

50 tons of silver lost during war salvaged

Nearly 50 tons of silver lost during the Second World War when a British merchant vessel sank three miles below the Atlantic has been brought back to the surface, it was announced yesterday.

The Belgrano sinks amid orange life rafts holding survivors in the South Atlantic in May 1982

Sinking the Belgrano: the Pinochet connection

No incident in the Falklands War divided opinion so bitterly. Some even called it a war crime. Now a member of the War Cabinet has revealed how Argentine orders intercepted by Chile convinced the British that their enemies' prize cruiser had to be sunk

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