After The Battle #123 – The Siege of Leningrad

The story of the longest ever siege enduRed by a modern city which lasted for nearly 900 days from August 1941 to January 1944. Preservation How Churchill and Wren Came to Missouri – Cyril Demarne describes Winston Churchill’s visit to Fulton Missouri in March 1946, when he gave his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech, and how St Mary’s church in Aldermanbury, in the City of London came to be dismantled and moved to Missouri. United Kingdom The Admiralty Citadel – Roger Morgan describes the construction of the massive blockhouse on Horse Guards Parade in London, including the resiting of the Royal Naval Division Memorial alongside it on the original plinth from which it was dismantled in 1940. It Happened Here The Death of General Andrews. – David Hanson’s account of the flight to Iceland in May 1943 which ended in the death of the Commanding General of the European Theater of Operations.

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