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Female volunteers such as Marie Schmolka played a decisive role in the collaborative project to rescue beleaguered Jewish children.
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The life and work of the war poet and author is revealed in all its rich complexity.
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Volume 68 Issue 11 November 2018
- The end of the First World War
- Tyrants and robots
- Mental illness in the 19th century
- Lenin, the Machiavellian Marxist
- Snoopy’s war
- Catherine of Aragon’s slave
- Fake news