...the back of their campervan and drove him across the Channel to an East German border checkpoint. His KGB controller, Sergei Kondrashev, then arranged Blake’s onward journey to Moscow. Codenamed...
...Secretary of State for War was the public face of the British war effort against Germany (literally through his famous poster – ‘Your Country Needs You’). In 1926 a memorial...
...in November 1762. He died at Spa in Germany in October 1764. An inveterate builder of political bridges, his career illustrates the importance of connection and tact for political success....
...to be enlisted was considered a Conscientious Objector. Others had political objections to the war as they did not consider the government of Germany to be their enemy. Some had...
...(GDR). Between the establishment of the communist régime in East Germany in September 1949 and 31 May 1961, over 2.6 million people left the GDR. Their loss was a costly...
...controversy, and a few appeared to share the view of the socialist writer George Orwell, that international sport – far from promoting harmony among nations as its proponents claimed –...
...English Art Club. In 1908 and 1910, Bone became internationally renowned as his work was shown in France and Germany respectively. In 1916 at a Red Cross sale of blank...
...Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution; Will Bring Us Victory’ and ‘Freedom is in Peril; Defend it with all Your Might’). The ‘Keep Calm’ design was never officially issued and only a...
...1st Military Working Regiment, based in Germany, employs around 200 canines and 280 personnel. Prior to active duty with the British Army, Royal Air Force or Royal Military Police, all...
...in China and the future of the Middle East. A contentious issue was the future of defeated Germany: its administration, industrial disarmament, allocation of reparations, and how its people should...