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Deadliest British Soldier of WWII

From the skies, seas, and shadows of World War II, three British warriors redefined the art of combat against the Axis powers ...
When Charles M. Schulz came up with the concept of Snoopy, he recalled the tragic loss of his mother as he was leaving to go ...
When they are not fighting, they write poetry, letters home or words of praise to their supreme commander,” said one of the ...
The Home Guard evolved into a well-equipped and well-trained army of 1.7 million men, according to the Imperial War Museum A collection of World War Two Home Guard papers reveals the volunteer force ...
On April 22, 1955, British Lieutenants Philip Curtis and Terry Waters attended church service in an abandoned Korean Temple in the windy hills of South Korea. The two men pondered silently as they ...
Robert H. Jackson, an American Supreme Court justice who thought of himself as "anything but a warrior," was drafted by FDR ...
British troops have been deployed to the Middle East to help keep the peace in Gaza - but commanders and politicians must ...
A Chinese-Canadian war veteran who fought in the Second World War has died at the age of 99. Born in Cumberland, B.C., Gordie Quan was one of hundreds of Chinese-Canadians who fought for Canada during ...
A collection of World War Two Home Guard papers reveals the volunteer force was not "a load of duffers" but highly skilled soldiers, according to a historian. The Home Guard was established in May ...
Transnational male friendship, in RG Salvi’s Whom Enemies Sheltered, locates itself within a wartime memoir-writing tradition of romance and unexpected relationships in the Italian countryside.
Audio clip A short time ago, an American aeroplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It is an atomic bomb. It ...
But by the end of his decade-long tenure, which covered two reelections, Blair had ordered British troops into combat more than any other British Prime Minister since World War II. He did not ...