Gold coin linked to Hitler tops $50 million at private auction
A 1937 coin said to have been carried by Adolf Hitler has reportedly drawn offers above $52.3 million — a claim historians and numismatists treat with considerable caution.
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US supply ship sunk by U-boat
17th August 1941: As the Battle of the Atlantic intensifies, survivors describe long hours adrift in an open boat before a passing corvette finds them.
20 HRS AGOThe interrogation of a captured agent
The Security Service view of a man dropped by parachute — they had his cover story on file and knew almost to the hour when he would arrive.
AUG 16Welcome to a prisoner-of-war camp
16th August 1941: British troops begin to fill up a large camp already familiar to French prisoners, soon to be familiar to many more.
AUG 16Armour advances across the open desert
15th August 1941: A tank crew records the choking dust, the mechanical failures and the long silences between short, violent actions in North Africa.
AUG 15Escorting the convoy home
14th August 1941: From the deck of a destroyer, a young signalman watches the merchant ships he is sworn to protect fade into the North Atlantic haze.
AUG 14A charter agreed at sea
14th August 1941: Aboard warships in a quiet Newfoundland bay, two leaders set their names to a short statement of war aims that reaches far beyond the war itself.
AUG 14A night on the platform
13th August 1941: A year into the bombing, a Londoner describes the strange domestic life that has grown up on the platforms of the underground, far below the raids.
AUG 13The briefing before the raid
12th August 1941: A bomber navigator sets down the hour that hangs heaviest — the quiet room, the map, and the long wait before the aircraft roll.
AUG 12The oldest soldiers
11th August 1941: An evening drill of the Home Guard — old rifles, older men, and a seriousness that outsiders were too quick to mock.
AUG 11'A Cavalryman's Long Road East'
A soldier's memoir of campaigning with horses from 1939 to 1942 — the mud, the cold, and the animal that carried him through all of it.
AUG 9'The Pilot Who Kept a Diary'
A young fighter pilot's private record of a single summer of air fighting — written each night, never intended to be read.
AUG 2Women at War
In a people's war, women are everywhere in the story — a collection of dispatches on the factories, the services and the home front.
JAN 3The War at Sea
From the convoy bridges of the North Atlantic to the engine rooms of the merchant fleet — a collection on the longest battle of the war.
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