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Edward Ardizzone - Diary of a War Artist
Edward Ardizzone was working as an official war artist in North Africa when he heard that the invasion of Europe was imminent "I asked to be present at the landing... so I landed on a Sicilian beach with the Division on D-Day." That was in July 1943. From then on, he kept an illustrated diary... |
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The Battle of the Atlantic
The conflict at sea between Allied merchant ships and their escorts and German U-boats, christened the Battle of the Atlantic by Winston Churchill on 6 March 1941, was arguably the decisive campaign of the Second World War. Only the clash of massed German and Soviet armies on the Eastern Front was as influential in its outcome. |
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SS Anglo Saxon's Jolly Boat
On 6 August 1940 the merchant ship SS Anglo Saxon left Newport, Wales, carrying a cargo of coal to Bahia Blanca, Argentina. The voyage was uneventful until the night of 21 August when she encountered the German armed merchant raider Widder approximately 800 miles west of the Canary Islands... |
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