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The South Tynedale Railway has opened for the season with a special guest locomotive set to feature in its annual steam gala ...
In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to ...
Saigon changed hands with remarkable ease. Fears of street-to-street fighting proved unfounded. Instead, the Southern army ...
In the crisp light near dusk I walked on to the railroad station, a monumental neo-Classical brick structure. Inside the waiting ... war.” At one point, their landlady exclaimed, “The soldiers ...
Millions of soldiers had come home from World War II to overcrowded ... because everyone is leaving one district to work in another. The nearest station to 798 was a few superblocks and about ...
Along the way, jubilant well-wishers slowed his train ... experienced soldier in the nation, Winfield Scott, general in chief of the U.S. Army, who had served in uniform since the War of 1812.
The doughboys hated British chow (not to mention drinking tea instead of coffee). They got along better with the Australians, ...
ALRESFORD, England, March 19 (Reuters) - The 'Canadian Pacific', a 1940s steam train that took soldiers and supplies to England's south coast during World War Two ... up here. One of the ...
One bullet cost ... help to carry wounded British soldiers back to their trenches after an attack near Ginchy, France, during the Battle of the Somme during World War I in 1916.
The previously unmarked grave of a British soldier who fell fighting for his country in the First World ... one of two men killed in the bombardment during a bitterly cold spring which war diaries ...
The ‘Canadian Pacific’, a 1940s steam train that took soldiers and supplies to England’s south coast during World War Two ... project that began in 2011. One of the volunteers for the ...
Amid its war with the Ukraine, reports are emerging that Europe is preparing for World War III with survival guides, nuclear bunkers and planning to recruit soldiers. European countries fear that ...