At the start of the 1950s, a severe mutual distrust began to freeze East-West relations, and international communities feared the start of a fresh global conflict. A rise in tensions between the Super Powers, combined with a proliferation of atomic bombs on each side, meant the world lived in terror
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The Winds of Change, Stross and the NHSThe Winds of Change, Stross and the NHS
In the summer of 1945, Allied victory over Nazi Germany had been secured, but conflict had left the British people exhausted and the nation financially crippled. To keep going, between 1939 and 1941 Britain had liquidated most of its overseas holdings, sacrificed most of its export trade and borrowed to
Initial Reactions to the Lidice AtrocityInitial Reactions to the Lidice Atrocity
Prague Radio broadcast on the evening of Wednesday the 10th of June 1942 that: “…all men in the village of Lidice, a Czech coal-mining centre, have been shot on suspicion of harbouring the murderers of Heydrich, the women have been deported to a concentration camp and the children sent to