BBC2 年
Troops from the British Empire
When World War Two broke out in September 1939, Britain called upon countries from across the British Empire for help. The contribution from people across the empire was crucial in helping Britain ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire
Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for British power or revulsion at what seem to be ...
来自MSN26 天
Blitz Bombs the British Empire — Again
British filmmaker Steve McQueen’s latest demoralizing film, Blitz, takes on England’s World War II experience when Germany ... of the colonialist empire. McQueen revises the cultural ...
A look back at the Roosevelt-Lindbergh feud
Global celebrity Charles Lindbergh and master politician President Franklin D. Roosevelt dueled over America’s entry into ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4 天
When London’s Iconic Crystal Palace Burned to the Ground in a Devastating Fire
Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...
National Interest on MSN10 天
Britain’s B-26 Botha Is the Worst Bomber of World War II
Botha took flight. It was part of the RAF’s rearmament program. Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., built the twin-engine plane that ...