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He was a war hero and Britain’s number one diver, but
On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t
Shadows Ulrik Skotte The Umbrella Murder The ...
“HAUNTED BY THE SPECTRE OF THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION”
When we think of the U-boat campaign during the Second World War, images often arise of silent predators gliding beneath the waves, steely and lethal, striking fear into Allied convoys. The myth of th
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...
In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott
