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5 de jun. de 2024 · El eminente historiador y estratega militar Basil Liddel Hart le confesó al político conservador Duncan Sandys, yerno de Winston Churchill, que "nuestro plan de invasión del continente no le ...
26 de jun. de 2024 · Book review of: Duncan Sandys and the Informal Politics of Britain's Late Decolonisation. By Peter Brooke. Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. xi + 271 pp. £67.99. Staff and students at the University of Worcester have access to the full-text of the online published version via the UW online Library Search.
26 de jun. de 2024 · Their eldest daughter, Diana, married Conservative politician Duncan Sandys while Mary married diplomat Nicholas Soames (later Lord Soames), who would play a key role in concealing Churchill’s incapacity following a stroke in 1953.
6 de jun. de 2024 · When his note, now typed up as a memorandum, was shared with Duncan Sandys it quickly reached the Prime Minister and Chiefs of Staff. Sandys also submitted a written statement which stated Liddell Hart had mentioned in conversation the coast of Normandy and possibly the importance of Caen, which was indeed critical to the plan.
12 de jun. de 2024 · The War Office Intelligence Branch appointed 35-year-old Duncan Sandys to investigate the possibility of long-range rocket development. By June 1943, Sandys was shown aerial reconnaissance photos of Peenemünde taken by an RAF Mosquito airplane.
Hace 2 días · Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC ( / ˈhjuːm /; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
25 de jun. de 2024 · The de Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype first flew in 1949. It features an aerodynamically clean design with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines buried in the wing roots, a pressurised cabin, and large windows.
