Tag: World War Two
10 Posts
Africa, Eritrea, Horn of Africa
The Indian troops who died fighting to liberate Eritrea from Italian fascism, 1941
Remember the one million Africans who fought for Britain in World War Two – and for their own freedom
The boys who gave their all for our freedom
Africa, Britain, Cape Town South Africa, South Africa
Snoek! “Vars Snoek!”
Is the Covid problem that we’ve had it too easy for too long? The grazed knee syndrome
Churchill and the Bengal famine
Haile Selassie’s last-ditch attempt to halt Mussolini: the Standard Oil lease
The death of one of Eritrea’s last Askari
Martin Plaut 