I didn't realise that the Flemish were big collaborators, but as George Orwell said the English would have been surprised too when the Germans came.
We used to have a women who would give us a lift to school - she only died last year. She was part of the land army and got a licence that...
Before my grandfather passed away I used to ask him lots of questions on what life was like in Northern Ireland in the twenties and the thirties....
The problem was that they were totally isolated from one another. To unite they would either have had to carve up the Soviet Union or conquer...
One grandfather was training as an RAF glider pilot when the war ended. The other was in Northern Ireland and was never called up - and never...
Australians are obsessed by Gallipoli and it has taken on the same sort of sinificance that a war of independence would for other nations.
The concentration camps were a strategy used by the British after the first stage of the Boer war to weaken the guerillas by keeping the Afrikaans...
You can always rely on people to torture their own kind, just convince them that the people are traitors. Look at the way the IRA terrorised...
