It is usually the ubiquitous things that we least notice in everyday life and about which we know the least. In English there is even an idiom for this:“Hiding in plain sight , hiding in sight. This applies in particular to things that shape our lives day after day but are somehow too abstract to al
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets. In some blog posts we have dealt with issues related to the formidable English King Edward I, either from the time when his father Henry III still reigned and he was the heir to the crown (see the entries dedicated to the battle of Lewes and Simon de Montf
In our pages we have already written about how the Home Army almost sent Hans Frank into the afterlife. However, this was not the first attempted assassination attempt on a German dignitary by the Krakow underground. On April 20, 1943 - Hitlers birthday - the punishing arm of the Underground State a
The battle at Agios Basilios of Parnon was one of the most important conflicts of the Civil War in the Peloponnese and is part of Operation Pigeon, the clearing of the Peloponnese from the rebels. The 3rd division of the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) operated in the area, which had developed signi