Why is the battle for the Ardennes still stirring up emotions in the West? Was it because it could change the fate of the war? Or maybe because 20,000 Americans were taken prisoner then? December 16, 1944 at At 5.30 am with an artillery barrage of two thousand guns, the German offensive in the Ard
The family life of the Canadiens in the 1930s and early 1940s was characterized by a rigid gender division of labor. This was an unchanging law of nature:while a male identity depended on his ability to materially support his wife and children, the role of a married woman was to give birth and raise
It is a fact. Peaky Blinders has returned to the BBC for its sixth season, which will (unfortunately) be its last. Since the show is now well into the historical elements of the era its dealing with, lets see how many have a basis in fact and how much is ultimately the result of imagination and dram
Obtaining documents is the basis of a spys job. In the Peoples Republic of Poland, counterintelligence obtained documents that made it possible to buy licenses for Western products cheaper. It was even possible to manufacture a vacuum cleaner… We are completely impartial, we watch everyone, said