Nancy Morgan may have been writing from firsthand knowledge of what it was like to be a civilian worker living in Hawaii during the war, but for all she makes of it, City of Women comes off as no more interesting than a week or two’s worth of General Hospital. City of Women, by ...
Canada joined the First World War on August 4, 1914, alongside Great Britain and the rest of the British Empire. What began as a mobile war quickly turned into a static one, with the entrenchment of the Allied and Entente armies. By 1915, the momentum that had previously animated early fi...
Teclis and two other High Elf magelords depart Ulthuan to assist Magnus the Pious in the war against Chaos.(Needs Source) 2302 to 2320 IC - Many small towns near the Blighted Marshes are razed or disappear altogether.(Needs Source) 2303 IC - The Dark Elves are drive n out of Ulthuan ...
Constructed in the Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth, in 1934 for the Royal Navy as a two-masted Grimsby-class sloop, theHMS Wellingtonserved in the Pacific in the lead-up to World War II, based mainly in New Zealand (she was named for the capital of New Zealand) and patrolling the South Pac...
A comprehensive study and listing of productes built by the Reo Motor Car Company in World War Two
Sonia: Between Two Worlds, by Stephen McKenna (1917) 28 September 2022 Cover of Sonia by Stephen McKenna. This is a guest post by Dr. Sarah Lonsdale. By March 1917 Britain had her back against the wall in a way she had never dreamed, nor expected even at the outbreak of War in Augus...
They concluded that a treaty between Germany and Soviet would mean peace in Eastern Europe, and that the Soviet Union should be aware of the United Kingdom, whose aggressiveness would undoubtedly drag the Soviet Union into a war should the two countries sign any military agreement with each ...
Troops in a wood near Ypres in May 1915(Imperial War Museum) Two unknown soldiers from the Royal Fusiliers will be buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s New Irish Farm Cemetery on 9 October. Remains of the two men were discovered in 2014 during building work near Ypres. Researc...
Interesting facts, images and videos about World War II for primary school children to use in topic-work.
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) * (cultural) The Maison Carrée of Nîmes (cultural) Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique (natural) Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands (mixed)The famous rocky islet of Mont Saint-Mi...