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Ernie Pyle was a Pulitzer Prize -winning American journalist and one of many war correspondents in WWII, but easily the most famous because of what he wrote and how he wrote it. His columns were syndicated across the country and brought home the tragedy of war and those who fought and died in it in

The late travel writer and novelist’s study of his dad – brave soldier, man of the cloth but also snob and antisemite – offers a beautifully written portrait rather than judgment

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Pleasant, hilly Thuringia, the “green lung” of Germany, has not always had pleasant times. One hundred years ago, after a socialist revolution had been squelched following World War I, Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia and neighboring Saxony defiantly elected coalition governments.

Bill Mauldin’s World War II cartoons showed the American infantryman’s war: muck, flying bullets, exhaustion, pompous fools of officers. Infantrymen loved them, then the American public.

Cartoonist Bill Mauldin won a Pulitzer and made General Patton furious but today is unknown.

The Observer’s critics saw the ‘ordeal in Rome’ and now a new book reveals why it flopped

A whale of a tale According to the International Whaling Commission “whale watching tourism is rapidly growing around the world.” But it is highly unlikely that the majority of the …

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Ancient Romans also liked to travel to health resorts in Greece, to wander the Egyptian pyramids, or party on the Gulf of Naples.