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Stephen Taylor recounts the story of HMS Black Joke and the West Afric
“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...
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In 1942, the German war machine was at the height of its power. France, the ‘hereditary enemy’, was defeated and occupied. In the Soviet Union, Army Group South was marching inexorably toward the Cauc
Flight’s glamorous beginnings
Essentially heavy cruisers that were constructed in accordance with the restrictions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, the Deutschland-class vessels boasted six 28 cm (11-in.) guns in tw
Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites