ww2dbaseThe fall of France and the establishment of the Vichy government put the Allied forces in a precarious position. The Vichy French government was non-belligerent, but was also under heavy influence of Nazi Germany. The vast French colonial holdings in North Africa, along with the sizeable...
It was not just entirely natural processes that were explained by faery forces. Relics of our own forgotten history might be ascribed to the supernaturals as well. Prehistoric flint arrowheads were explained as ‘elf-bolts’ (or arrows, or darts); ‘fairy pavements’ were the tesserae of Roman...
first 16 years of his career, with three shorts, and then two feature films, ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’ and ‘The Long Day Closes’ (1992), finding different, personal and poetic ways of making sense of his recollections of his childhood in a post-war, working-class Liverpool home....
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Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. ...
warGreeceMass-ObservationpublicopinionBritish military intervention in Greece in December 1944, in support of the anti-communist forces in the country, elicited a significant reaction at home, from left-wing politicians and trade unions as well as by the press. Indeed, records of the Mass-...
Results from this search have established beyond doubt that on 27th April 1942 HMS Urge struck a German mine when leaving the British submarine base at the height of the siege of Malta by German and Italian forces in WW2. The wreck of the submarine stands upright and proud at a depth of ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Sabah (redirected fromBritish North Borneo) Thesaurus Encyclopedia Related to British North Borneo:Sarawak Sa·bah (sä′bä′) A region of Malaysia in northeast Borneo. Sabah was a British protectorate, originally...
During the Second World War German officials and military forces used an innovative electro-mechanical device known as the Enigma machine to protect their top-secret radio traffic. Though the historical documents (held at the Public Record Office) remained classified until the 1970s, the story of ...
British Pet Massacre Contributor:C. Peter Chen ww2dbaseIn 1939, prior to the start of the European War, the British government formed the National Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee (NARPAC) to evaluate the effects animals would have on the war, particularly on the aspect of food rationing...