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A Highland New Guinean is shocked to see a white person for the first time in his life, in 1930. Before 1930, Highlanders thought they were the only living people in the world...
''We believed our dead went over there, turned white, and came back as spirits. That's how we explained the white man: our own dead had... See more
At the start, the situation had been complicated by the fact that the so-called Cloak and Dagger boys, under the control of a mysterious Colonel Grand and the Foreign Office, were involved in this adventure. But it had now been decided that they should break away from the War Office and go off on their own. This left Colonel Holland with a
... See moreStuart Macrae • Winston Churchill's Toyshop
arriving, once again crewed by ‘diseased cripples’, on 22 December 1604.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
He had come from Britain to work with Indian soldiers—many of whom had fought for England in the First World War—when
Alka Joshi • The Henna Artist: A Novel
Britain’s topmost naval official, the first lord of the Admiralty, Winston S. Churchill, sixty-five years old.
Erik Larson • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
William Keeling,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The men of the 7th Flieger Division who spearheaded the