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An armoured Balaklava: Lessons from the Gothic Line
This year marks the 80th anniversary of a number of bloody engagements which, eventually, brought about the downfall of Hitler’s Nazis. The recent publicity surrounding the events to commemorate the Normandy invasion of June 1944 was hard to miss – but it …