Seventy-five years after the Cichociemni were parachuted into Nazi-occupied Poland, British and Polish special forces gather to mark little-known chapter of war. Senior officers and veterans from Polish and British special forces are to gather in Londo…
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Seventy-five years after the Cichociemni were parachuted into Nazi-occupied Poland, British and Polish special forces gather to mark little-known chapter of war. Senior officers and veterans from Polish and British special forces are to gather in Londo…
Alan Turing could not have cracked the Enigma Code without the help of Polish mathematicians and it is time to “right the wrong” and acknowledge their contribution, the Polish government has said. Deciphering the German system is believed to have […]
Alan Turing could not have cracked the Enigma Code without the help of Polish mathematicians and it is time to “right the wrong” and acknowledge their contribution, the Polish government has said. Deciphering the German system is believed t…
It may not be apparent to everyone today, but written constitutions are a relatively modern phenomenon. The two earliest examples date only from the late eighteenth century, and come from two countries, decidedly different at first glance: America and …
It may not be apparent to everyone today, but written constitutions are a relatively modern phenomenon. The two earliest examples date only from the late eighteenth century, and come from two countries, decidedly different at first glance: America and …
When Warsaw’s Old Town was destroyed by Hitler’s troops in the second world war, the nation mobilised to rebuild the city with the rubble of its own destruction – and the work of Italian painter Bernardo Bellotto. It is August […]
Poland’s conservative government is taking steps that threaten an ambitious new World War II museum which international experts have spent eight years creating — the latest ideological battle the nation’s nationalistic authorities are waging against the pro-European rivals they ousted […]
A spectacular new museum of the second world war is at the centre of an extraordinary row between international academics and Poland’s political leadership, amid claims that the country’s ruling Law and Justice party is putting history at the service […]