World War I medal discovered after nearly a century
French President plays tribute to British sacrifices
Diaries reveal Prisoner of War horror
France honours last WW1 survivor
First World War underground city renovatedBook Reviews»
Essential Reading : Josef Stalin (0)
Explaining the internal workings of a dictator and a mass murderer is nigh on impossible. Yet, the following texts have given historians the greatest insight in to the man who killed more of his own people than anyone else in history.
1. Young Stalin - Simon Sebag Montefiore
2. Stalin: Triumph […]
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World War I medal discovered after nearly a century (0)
A First World War medal has been unearthed in a field in Betchworth, Surrey, almost 90 years after it was first lost. The medal belonged to a soldier called Thomas Swan, who was so distressed by the war that he threw the medal from a train shortly after being awarded it.
The medal was then found […]
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20 July plot (aka Valkyrie) (0)
The 20 July plot refers to a 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler, who was the leader of Nazi Germany at the time. Needless to say, despite actually managing to detonate an explosive device in the same room as a meeting with Hitler, he managed to survive the blast.
The concept behind the conspiracy was that […]
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Britain’s secret biological ‘retaliation’ plans for WWII (0)
Information from a set of files detail how Britain was researching human and animal biological warfare techniques during World War II.
The human disease included typhoid and cholera, while animal disease consisted of foot-and-mouth, swine fever and anthrax (which is obviously also harmful to humans).
The reports specify that the research was a potential retaliation to any […]
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