Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. In Theft, his first novel since he won the award, a teenage ...

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It has been eight decades since more than 500 homeless, desperate Norwegians were rescued from the Nazi occupied Norwegian island of Sørøya before being taken to Neilston via an Arctic convoy ... ship ...

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World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly morning of9, 1917. Its target, the Lady Olive, was about eight miles off the ...

"NIGHT SIGHT can mean LIFE or DEATH", the poster blares as a grim-faced soldier peers into the distance, presumably watching for the approaching enemy.