Casting a wide net over the intriguing world of Modern History
When the troops from Charlie company arrived in Vietnam in December 1967, they instantly bonded with the locals. The first few weeks featured more socialising than any actual fighting. This was not the War they were expecting, and it was great. But…
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Now I am become Death… In August 1945, the United States detonated 2 Atomic bombs over Japan. The first destroyed the city of Hiroshima on Monday the 6th. The second, more powerful bomb, destroyed the city of Nagasaki, just 3 days later….
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With so much attention given, understandably, to the catastrophic 20 year War in Iraq, not much has been said about the preceding events. It is these events which created the bad blood that exists between the USA & Iraq. No, not the…
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British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, stated that Britain could not have come through the Second World War (or the First) without the giant contribution of the Indian Army. Yet, for most of us outside India, this has gone largely unnoticed. The…
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For over 600 years, the Ottoman Empire occupied the gateway between the East and the West. At its zenith in 1522, the Empire lead by Sulieman the Magnificent, controlled a quarter of Europe (south east), in addition to the Anatolian Peninsula, the…
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The debacle otherwise known as the ‘War in Afghanistan’ lasted 20 years, making it far and away the longest war the USA has ever been involved in. After two decades of fighting, over 100,000 deaths and at a cost of almost a…
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We often hear nowadays that the West is declining and being overtaken by China. Actually, China is not rising to the top of the ladder, it is returning. For thousands of years the geographically enormous nations of China and India have been…
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This week, the conflict between the Israeli government and Palestinian militants in Gaza, escalated significantly. Hamas militants have fired hundreds of rockets at Israel, and the Israeli military has carried out massive airstrikes in response. Several thousand IDF (Israeli Defence Force) reserve troops…
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For the last few decades, the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been divided into 2 independent regions. Northern Cyprus and the Republic of Cyprus. The Greek Cypriot majority controls the UN recognised, Republic of Cyprus, whilst the north is under the…
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Once again, it appears that all is not well in the hermit kingdom of North Korea. Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has suggested that they are due for a repeat of the economic collapse and mass starvation that they experienced in the…
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