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By Paul Hynes. French sailors are inspected on the destroyer Léopard in June 1942; this crew would go on to engage a U-Boat a few weeks later. From the Imperial War Museum's collection via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. The flash of naval gunfire adds to the light of the early morning horizon. On this early day in June, it is the first greeting from the vast liberation armada swarming the Normandy coast. The defenders are both fascinated and horrified by the sight. They re

Edited by David Flin. Written by: Heath Aberdeen Falisha Adiguna Eesha Haq Teddy Harrison Jaiden-David Hinds Ame Lock Eden Murray Betsy Street Chapter Six. Brian and Mary looked in awe at the huge pile of books that had arrived. It was going to take them all day just to sort through them. With all the books they had on asteroids and all the books they had on magic, surely they could come up with something to save the world? “The only problem is, will anyone know we did it?” B

By Matthew Kresal. CD cover, via Big Finish's website. The decision in February 1985 to put Doctor Who on hiatus had an immeasurable impact upon the series. The series, which had already begun to bleed viewers, would continue to do so until BBC executives felt they could end it in everything but name nearly five years later. The decision also arguably tarnished the image of Colin Baker as the Doctor, which was further harmed when the same executives pushed him out of the role

By Gary Oswald. Members of the City Imperial Volunteers burn a farm at Frederickstrad. This left the guerillas unable to feed themselves, and starved civilians in their thousands. Picture out of copyright, held by the National Army Museum. As discussed in the previous article, the British armies in South Africa were firmly in the ascendancy during 1900. But as they advanced into the Boer Republics, capturing their capitals, they made only limited efforts to bring the Boer arm