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Operation Mincemeat

As we draw closer to Christmas, what better time to discuss the topic of mincemeat? This isn't the kind of mincemeat you'd want to find in your mince pie though – this stuff was far more gruesome. On the morning of 30 April 1943, a sardine fisherman happened across a corpse

November 11, 2021

The Berlin Airlift

The war had only been over for three years, and already things were going badly. The Soviets had reached Berlin first, and immediately set about exacting their revenge for Hitler’s ruthless 1941 invasion of Russia. Two months later, the Western Allies arrived, and the city was promptly divided into

February 25, 2021