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King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..

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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution and its story during the Second World ..

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The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the spread of Perestroika throughout the former Sovie..

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We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. I..

On a warm July evening in 1985 a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in Moscow ho..

The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in de..

D-Day 6 June 1944 was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation..