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Second World War: The backdrop of the movies in the race for Oscars

Ian Harvey
Second World War

Whether it is a moviemaker or studio where movies are made both of them love to make war movies. On the other hand audience also…

Scarborough WWI Bombardment Set to be Commemorated A Century On

Scarborough will commemorate the WWI bombardment of the coastal town in the hands of the Germans during the Great War — December of 1914, to be…

Lost bodies of five airmen to be recovered after 70 years

Ian Harvey
airmen

Five soldiers from Halifax HR980 who were killed in 1943 during a night raid have never had their bodies recovered.  These WWII airmen were shot…

Hanbury Crater: Britain’s biggest WWII explosion site 70 years on

Ian Harvey

Seismologists in Switzerland at first thought it was an earthquake, hardly guessing the seismograph recorded the effects of a massive explosion in far distant England.…

Fantasy Imitation of John Cairncross in “The Imitation Game”

Ian Harvey
The Imitation Game

Gayle Brinkerhoff found “The Imitation Game” to be the fantasy portrayal of her late husband John Cairncross who was an Enigma code breaker at Bletchley…

Not-Before-Seen Pictures of WWI Explosion in Halifax Revealed

Previously unseen pictures of the WWI explosion in Halifax, then the world’s biggest explosion, were recently revealed and released. The said photos were taken by a Somerset…

Tower of London: Last Commemorative Ceramic Poppy Removed

The last commemorative ceramic poppy of the inspiring project installed in the Tower of London’s moat was finally removed by the youngest and the oldest…

Propaganda by Hollywood’s Greats in War documentaries

Ian Harvey
War documentaries

During the Second World War some of Hollywood’s greatest movie producers and directors produced propaganda movies and presented to the public as authentic documentaries. The…

US warship under makeover

Ian Harvey
US warship

A US navy cruiser which was used during the Second World War is now found as a floating museum on the waterfront of lake Erie…

TV’s Dan Snow discovers his great-grandmother was a WWI volunteer orderly

Ian Harvey
great-grandmother

After Dan Snow, historian and presenter from The One Show, discovered that his great-grandmother, Lady Olwen Carey Evans, worked as a volunteer aid helping wounded…

Poland: Eight Holocaust Victims Shoes Stolen

Poland – Eight Holocaust victims shoes were stolen recently from a former concentration camp now turned museum in Poland. According to reports, the theft took place between November 18…

Will the Chinese wartime forced labourers get justice this time?

Ian Harvey
wartime

An association of lawyers, academics and forced labourers and their families in China have sued two Japanese companies that forced Chinese men and women as…