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Forgotten heroes: Study gives voice to China's nationalist WWII veterans

04 Nov 2021

As the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its 100th anniversary, new research gives voice to the country's still controversial nationalist (KMT)...

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The Channel Islands' victims and survivors of Nazi persecution

24 Jul 2019

A decade of research reveals the harrowing experiences of Channel Islanders persecuted by the Nazis during the Second World War.

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How Churchill Waged War

21 Nov 2018

A newly-published book by Churchill Archives Centre Director Allen Packwood illuminates the agonising decisions faced by the Prime Minister during...

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A plane drops a bouncing bomb at Mackenzie, British Columbia, where researchers successfully reconstructed the Dambusters mission of World War II.

Opinion: The Dambusters raid took place 75 years ago – here's how they made a bomb bounce

16 May 2018

Hugh Hunt from Cambridge's Department of Engineering - who recreated the Dambusters raid in 2011 - discusses how engineers made a bomb bounce 75...

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Exhibition highlights the untold story of Nazi victims in the Channel Islands

19 Oct 2017

The untold stories of slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews who were persecuted during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during...

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A house in Darmstadt destroyed by an Allied bombing raid.

World War II bombing associated with resilience, not ‘German Angst’

23 Jun 2017

Experiencing traumatic events may be associated with greater mental resilience among residents rather than causing widespread angst, suggests a study...

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Diana Carnegie with her husband James and her children Charlotte, Sue and Sophie

Stolen World War Two letters help author uncover the hidden lives of army wives

09 Sep 2016

A stolen chest of letters – penned by an army wife to her husband on the battlefields of the Second World War – has helped a Cambridge academic and...

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One of several letters Crook sent from his prison camp, Stalag Luft VIII-B

Christmas Letters from a Second World War prison camp

22 Dec 2015

Moving letters sent by the academic John Crook while he was a prisoner at the notorious Stalag Luft VIII-B camp in World War II reveal his...

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Bataclan Paris attacks memorial

Opinion: Governments should turn to academics for advice on radicalisation, religion and security

03 Dec 2015

Tristram Riley-Smith (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses how universities and academics can add insight and depth to...

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Churchill Papers added to UNESCO’s list of the world’s greatest cultural treasures

30 Nov 2015

Winston Churchill’s vast archive – including his wartime speeches, letters to Stalin and three US Presidents – has been added to UNESCO’s...

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Mimoyecques eastern site reconstruction

Opinion: Building Hitler’s supergun: the plot to destroy London and why it failed

23 Nov 2015

Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the engineering behind the V-3 “supergun”, the weapon that was meant to win the Second World War for...

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Arthur Schnitzler, 1912

Saved from the Nazis in 1938: Schnitzler archive to remain in Cambridge

28 Oct 2015

Saved from destruction by the Nazis and smuggled in secret to Cambridge, the rescue of author Arthur Schnitzler’s archive is as dramatic as any...

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