...Turing, without whom the Enigma code might never have been broken, the Second World War might not have been won so speedily, and many more lives would have been lost...
...sword to smite its enemies. Spreading the Revolution Initially focussed on internal opposition, the Cheka began very soon to send agents abroad to gather intelligence and promote revolution by covert...
...Anglo-Saxons!” The list of objections against Charles de Gaulle attending the battle of Hastings commemoration events in a minute from private secretary John Nicholls (National Archives: FO 924/1629) Another major...
...Embassy Counsellor. Holman had arrived earlier in the month with the combination codes to the safes and 50,000 francs in cash. He took possession of the building from the Swiss...
...and Wales, and in Scotland). The question included 9 boxes, 7 labelled with pre-coded categories and 2 allowing people to write in their ethnicity. The classification was: White; Black-Caribbean; Black-African;...
...a more drawn out and sustained campaign of siege warfare. These accounts reveal substantial payments paid to specialist craftsmen whose construction and engineering capabilities were crucial to the prosecution of...
...purposes. Map of Central Asia, Foreign Office List, 1907 The agreement In 1901 Russia opened two consulates in Persia, investing in the Persian railways. The two countries shared a border...
...merely presenting a wish list to the US - eventually approved by Congress. A 1950 poster produced by the US government’s Economic Cooperation Administration to promote the Marshall Plan...
...At the bottom of the list of attendees at the 9 December War Cabinet meeting are two names: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir M.P.A Hankey, described as the ‘Secretary’; and Lieutenant-Colonel W. Dally...
...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...