Sublime

Quant à lui, Francisco Serrao, ci-devant capitaine de la flotte portugaise, il en a par-dessus la tête de la guerre, des aventures et du trafic des épices ! Il passe sans emphase du monde héroïque dans l’idyllique et décide de mener l’existence toute primitive, idéalement oisive de cette aimable peuplade. La haute dignité de grand-vizir que lui con

These prisoners were men from the Decima Flottiglia Mezzi d’Assalto (10a Flottiglia MAS, or the Italian ‘Tenth Light Flotilla Assault Craft’) whose activities would later occupy Ian Fleming’s intelligence commandos. Italy’s most original contribution to the technology of the Second World War was sub-aqua, pioneering midget submarines and producing

“A ticket to sure fire danger and excitement in the most explosive form is furnished every man who volunteers for the Seabee demolition units,” said a military publication in October 1943. When it is over “he is an expert in destruction, qualified to blow up everything from a milk bottle to a man.” So qualified, each graduate was assigned to a six-

Amongst the skiff’s castaways was Middleton himself. Washed ashore, he managed to evade Ceram’s supposed cannibals as he made his way back to base. He must have been almost there when, attempting to swim an alligator-infested river, he was swept out to sea and battered on the rocks

Several of the highly-placed officials had known her father, and those with Indian concubines made no difficulty; nor did the bachelors; but the European wives were harder to persuade. Few had much room to cast stones, but hypocrisy has never failed the English middle class in any latitude, and they flung them in plenty with delighted, shocked aban

With the bulk of the German armor deployed against the British Second Army at Caen, Collins’s VII Corps sliced across the Cotentin Peninsula and reached the sea on June 18, isolating the port of Cherbourg and its defenders. Collins turned north and a week later Cherbourg capitulated, sending 39,042 German troops into Allied captivity.