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#1 On 1 February 1945, I was ordered to take Kunersdorf, a village directly east of Frankfurt an der Oder. The enemy situation was unknown, but we knew that the Replacement Brigade Grossdeutschland was trapped in the Reppiner Forest northeast of Kunersdorf and was making desperate attempts to break out. We had to force a passage through to the west.
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#1 By 1943, Britain had been in the war for almost two years. The Battle of the Atlantic had been won, meaning the Allies could plan the road to final victory. The USA had become an arsenal of democracy by December 1941, but the journey there had begun in the summer of 1940.
#2 Air power was central to both Britain and America's military growth, and a key part of their...
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#1 We arrived in Denmark, and went to find our rental car. We drove on the wrong side of the road to the Legoland Hotel.
#2 The country we've moved to is snowy, and the roads are icy. We go back inside and put on every item of clothing we have, then emerge an hour later, looking like Michelin Men but better prepared to start the day.
#3 The Danish government requires...
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#1 The American ambassador to Britain, John Gilbert Winant, was taken to Windsor Castle by the king, who made clear that traditional court niceties were to be set aside during the war.
#2 Winant was the American ambassador to Britain, and his task was to explain to a country that was being bombed why a country 3,000 miles away wanted to help but would not fight. He...
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#1 Traveling to Europe is not just about passively consuming Europe, but actively participating in it. You must become part of the European ecosystem and adopt their customs and daily rhythms.
#2 The temporary European is empathetic: they assume that other people's ways make sense to them, and they try to understand why. It requires concerted effort to travel with curiosity...
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#1 There's no map, and the directions are a little vague. This book is intended as a guide to visiting Medieval England. It answers many questions you may have, such as where you can get a decent meal, how to contact a friend or relative, and how to get money.
#2 Medieval England was an agricultural land, and the main reason William the Conqueror wanted to become its...
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#1 I had a good feeling about meeting Ralph, and not just because of the cake element. Ralph had been chatty and interesting in his emails. But as we walked through the gallery, a sense of awkwardness settled over us.
#2 I was beginning to think that Ralph was married, not divorced. I was trying to be open-minded about him, but right now with the elderly couple lurking...
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#1 When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, feverish diplomatic efforts were engaged to obviate the treaty obligations that would force Britain and France to come to her defense. The French had increased their already large army to about 2. 5 million men. They pushed past their own Maginot Line in eastern France and moved cautiously a few kilometers into Germany,...
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#1 The British government was responsible for the state of Ireland, and it was their mismanagement that produced the terrible conditions there. The mere fact that Ireland was so miserable was a complete and irrefutable proof of the mismanagement to which she had been subjected.
#2 The Famine killed millions of people in Ireland, and it was also the cause of emigration....
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Get the Summary of Valentine Low's Courtiers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In Courtiers (2023), Valentine Low delves into the complex world of courtiers-the trusted advisers in the British royal family ' s inner circle. Low, a veteran royal reporter, e xamines both their influential roles and their political maneuvering. He highlights notable courtiers, the delicate balance they have to maintain between their...
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#1 The year that Napoleon was finally defeated was also the year that Otto von Bismarck was born: 1815. His childhood was heavily influenced by the stories of the struggle against the French. When Napoleon's army inflicted a humiliating defeat on Prussia in the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, it subjugated all Prussians to French overlordship.
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#1 The Battle of Britain, which was the British attempt to stop Hitler from taking over Europe, has become a symbol of courage and defiance against a more powerful and warlike enemy. But today, it has lost none of its luster.
#2 The Battle of Britain has come in for its share of revisionary history and debunking, though it has not been the subject of the same harsh criticism...
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#1 The rush to the diamond fields of Griqualand turned into a frantic escapade that one Cape Town newspaper likened to a dangerous madness. The mining settlements of Griqualand soon came to be renowned as much for despair, disease, and death as for the fortunes made there.
#2 In 1870, young Cecil Rhodes was sent to Natal from England to join his brother Herbert in a...
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Book Preview: #1 The game the rest of the world knows as jai alai was invented in the French Basque town of St. Pée-sur-Nivelle. The Basques, as they often did, went in a completely different direction than the French. They were the first Europeans to use a rubber ball, and the added bounce of wrapping rubber rather than string led them to play the ball off walls.
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#1 The cockerels began their morning chorus and people began to wake up. The vast majority of people lived a rural life and kept their own chickens and pigs in the yard out the back. Cattle and sheep grazed on town commons.
#2 Tudor beds were usually made of straw, and people would sleep on them in their clothes if they had to. They were not very comfortable, and they...
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#1 In November 1380, the fifth Parliament was convened to address the crisis facing England. The French, seeing a power vacuum at the head of English government, knew they had the upper hand. England's enemies scorned the notion that the young king's government might be capable of reaching a fair and balanced settlement to the Hundred Years War.
#2 Parliament was called...
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#1 The Karelian Isthmus is a land bridge between Russia and Scandinavia, and has been a highway for tribal migrations, a conduit for trade, and a springboard for conquest. The Isthmus has been a battleground between Russia and Sweden and has suffered as a result.
#2 Finland was a Swedish province from 1721 to 1809, when it was ceded to Russia as a function of the general...
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#1 The mood in Germany had changed two years before, when rumors began to circulate that General Paulus's Sixth Army had been encircled on the Volga by the Red Army. The Nazi regime found it difficult to admit that the largest formation in the Wehrmacht was doomed to annihilation in the ruins of Stalingrad.
#2 The air-raid shelters in Berlin were overcrowded, and the foreign workers...
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#1 The dusk spreads from the river. The clatter of shuttering echoes and answers as every house in the Georgian metropolis fortifies itself against the advancing dark. The November gloom hastens lodgers home, and they scurry back with sausages, oysters, and a pennyworth of tea.
#2 The idea of private life is a creation of the early modern period, and England is the birthplace of privacy....
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#1 In 1940, the French spy Jacques Allier was sent to bring back heavy water from Norway, which the Germans were also interested in. He needed to secure the stock before the Germans did.
#2 Allier traveled to Amsterdam, where he met with three French intelligence agents. He gave them the letter of credit and authority to recruit any French agents needed in smuggling...
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