Ready-to-eat food for the table. A wealthy Florentine merchant from the Medici era could generally afford very expensive food If we had the opportunity to be invited to lunch by a 16th century Florentine bourgeois, the typical social class, at the time, of merchants, we would certainly be face
Service in the Special Operations Executive, Churchill believed, requires character, willingness to pursue a noble cause and pirate bravado. He wanted SOE agents to show the French and other conquered nations that they were not alone and to prepare them for an uprising against the Nazi occupiers.
Hunger was an inseparable element of the camp existence. He devastated the body and psyche, pushed many to the brink of desperation. For those prisoners who managed to survive, there was nothing bizarre, hideous, or unacceptable enough to not be included in the menu. In The Last Prisoner - an ex
The tragedy of Volhynia is simply unimaginable. Poles died under the blows of their torturers regardless of their age - old people, adults and even babies. Sometimes the only family members who survived were children. What was the fate of Polish orphans saved from the Volhynia massacre in 1943?