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Author Jane Corry meets some of the relatives of members of
We ended last month looking at the soldier’s pocket books of the 19th century. Sadly very few of these documents survive. They are NOT included in any Army papers that have been stored over the years.
On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1944, a young soldier from Newcastle married the love of his life with barely four hours to spare. My father, Corporal George Bell, a conscript with the Royal Electrical
“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
How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned
Shadows Ulrik Skotte The Umbrella Murder The ...