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On 1 January 1933, Germany was a democracy with a range of political parties. By the end of the year its parliament was a rubber stamp for Adolf Hitler’s will.
When, in 1931, the Vietnamese revolutionary Nguyen Ai Quoc was discovered to be hiding in Hong Kong, the French authorities requested the British extradite him to Indochina where a death sentence awaited.
‘If I was let loose in the archives of the Archaeological Museum in Naples I might never emerge.’
It is a pity when specialist historians condescend to an enthusiastic public.
Medieval women’s bodies were a battleground: they were either irretrievably sinful, or they were Christ-like.
The 1980 Protect and Survive booklet opened government plans to ridicule.
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Volume 70 Issue 1 January 2020
In the January issue:
- The Inca's Last Stand
- The League of Planets
- The First Shots in the Irish War of Independence
- Misery in the Head
- A Portrait of Empire
- History of Wolves
- Surviving Nuclear War
- Jesus the Feminist
- Plague
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