...that year became Foreign Secretary, led the committee. The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919 signifying the official end to the war. Victory Day would be on...
...was a problem. The radio signal needed to be strong enough to look like it came from Germany. To create such a strong signal, the radio transmitter had to be...
...1940 about 11,000 children were privately funded to travel overseas, many to the United States. Between July and September 1940, a further 3000 were sponsored by the government to travel...
...Just after 6pm, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, declared: We have no quarrel with the German people, except that they allow themselves to be governed by a Nazi government. Parliament...
Seventy-five years ago today, on 13 September 1944, a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across the English Channel towards Paris. The plane carried the new British...
...a 2nd Lieutenant in the Irish Guards. During the First World War he quickly rose up the ranks, ending it as an Acting Lieutenant-Colonel, 4 ranks higher. After the war,...
...of his war wounds. Despite the strength of the Waldorf name, they originally hesitated to adopt Nancy. Only one woman was elected in the general election in 1918, the first...
It has been 30 years since Communist rule in Eastern Europe finally ended with mass demonstrations, an end to one-Party rule, free elections and the opening of borders. Illegal organisations,...
...the brink of destruction. Nelson Mandela in 1994 (US National Archives and Records Administration) A bankrupt system The apartheid system was established by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party following its electoral...
...before the full scale of the Soviet espionage and subversion campaign in the West became apparent. In that context, the Fuchs case, though significant, was one element of a much...