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During the 1930s and into the war years, the Mail’s readers regarded refugees, in Hatherley’s neat formulation, as ‘a series ...

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British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

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I n early 18th-century Christian Europe, only Peter the Great ruled a larger territory than Augustus the Strong. As Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony in 1694 and King Augustus II of the ...