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In WWII’s final weeks, this British Indian Army sepoy was severely wounded in Italy while silencing multiple German machine gun nests

On 8 November 1942 this colonel played a crucial role in the Allied invasion of North Africa, attempting to secure the surrender of Vichy French forces and then leading an assault to secure the Moroccan beachhead

50 YEARS LATER

Thereʼs a good chance that Warren Brownʼs 1928 Dennis fire engine holds a lap record at Australiaʼs Eastern Creek International Raceway (now Sydney Motorsport Park). In 2007 he lost a race against a f

THIS SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRY IS FINALLY GETTING THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES, 50 YEARS AFTER THE END OF THE WAR. FROM FEASTING IN IMPERIAL CITIES TO HIKING MISTY MOUNTAIN VALLEYS WITH INDIGENOUS TRIBES AND SLOWING DOWN ON SUBTROPICAL BEACHES, VIETNAM’S BREADTH OF ATTRACTIONS IS HARD TO BEAT. VISITOR NUMBERS ARE GROWING, AND THERE’S STILL MUCH TO DISCOVER

On the face of it, the character of John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee in the ITV series The Avengers, was an unlikely icon for the swinging 60s. In a decade obsessed with youth, modernity and worki