What was so magical about the German 88mm gun? Was it this all-powerful cannon, which fired 16 km and sowed terror everywhere, as described by a persistent legend? No. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the 88 gun was already six years old — and the original model was even older.A former t
Wessex is one of the kingdoms founded by the Anglo-Saxons in England during the High Middle Ages. It extends over part of south-west Great Britain, between Domnonée in the west, Mercia in the north and the kingdoms of Kent, Sussex and Essex in the east. In the 9th century, Wessex was the last Anglo
In 1939, before the outbreak of the Second World War and the shadow of Nazi Germany falling over France, the French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier received in his office the unusual request to join the army to fight in defense of his country by of an exile It was not signed by any person but by one
The widespread use of sugar or honey gave a sweet and sour taste to many dishes of the Middle Ages. Miniature from the Book of King Modus and Queen Ratio, 14th century • WIKIPEDIA COMMONS In 1099, when the Crusaders who had arrived in Palestine to retake the Holy Land were approaching Jerusalem,