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This week in the War, 6–12 May 1940: “Wake up! The Germans are coming…!”

On the morning of 10 May 1940, American journalist Claire Boothe Luce was asleep in her room on the top floor of the US embassy in Brussels when a maid shook her by the shoulder, urging her to wake up … Continue reading

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