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In the Second World War, Poznań was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was, given indicating the Red Army's, approach in January 1945, the city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily, evacuated, leaving a garrison of some 15,000 men, mostly poorly, armed infantry, to face the rigors of a siege, conducted by a massively, superior and ruthless enemy, anxious to acquire this transport center, which...
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There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was the second wife of Henry VIII, mother of Elizabeth I and the first English queen to be publicly executed. Much of what we think we know about her is colored by myth and legend and does not stand up to close scrutiny. Reinvented by each new generation, Anne is buried beneath centuries of labels: homewrecker, seductress, opportunist, witch, romantic victim,...
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