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Nearly forty years after the Chernobyl explosion – the worst nuclear accident in history – much has been written about the disaster. However, one vital part of the story has been largely overlooked in English-language accounts: the crucial role played by Soviet aviation in the emergency response. While the “liquidators” are widely remembered, thousands of aviators, particularly…
In July 1936, Spain’s air force was outdated and ill-prepared for modern warfare. Its few Nieuport-Delage fighters, Breguet bombers and Dornier seaplanes belonged to another era, unsuited to the conflict about to unfold. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War turned the country’s skies into a testing ground for new aircraft and tactics that would soon…
On 27 October 1981, the Soviet Navy’s Whisky-class submarine S-363 ran aground near Sweden’s Naval Base Karlskrona, one of the country’s main military installations. The grounding sparked a serious diplomatic and military crisis. Swedish forces swiftly surrounded the vessel, sealed off the area, and increased surveillance along the nation’s borders. The Soviets claimed the submarine had strayed…
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, originally formed in 1674 and once known as the 6th Regiment of Foot, is one of Britain’s oldest county regiments. After early service in the Dutch army, it joined the British Crown in 1688 and today is part of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. In the Second World War, the 2nd Battalion…
The experience of war is never confined to those who participate militarily: whilst soldiers defend their homes or fight far from them, the consequences of warfare ripple out across their immediate families and communities, and the lives of countless civilians the combatants will never meet. In the seventeenth century, as in any era, soldiers’ wives…