Issue 19

Articles from issue 19 of BBC World Histories

Brazilian peacekeepers under UN command in Haiti during general election 2006

When should countries intervene in others’ affairs?

An Indian soldier, emaciated after internment by the Japanese, aboard the British hospital ship 'Oxfordshire' in 1945 (Keystone/Getty Images)

Second World War

The untold story of India’s WW2 prisoners of war

Illustration of Brunhilda of Austrasia

The real Brunhild? The Visigothic princess behind the Norse saga

Charles Manson stares out from fabric on sale in San Francisco

The afterlife of Charles Manson

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe inspects troops at the opening of parliament in 2000. By then, opposition was being violently suppressed (AFP Contributor/Getty Images)

The two faces of Robert Mugabe

(Illustration by Davide Bonazzi for BBC World Histories Magazine)

How the American Revolution created a global storm

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Richard Nixon gives a thumbs-up

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East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

What happened after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

A ‘Trabi’ – the classic East German Trabant 601 car

The cost of unity: Ian Kershaw on the fall of the Berlin Wall