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Documentaries
The scattered isles
(Under construction)
Little-known paradise islands give France strategic control of the Mozambique channel and western Indian Ocean. Shipwrecked mariners, pirates, slaves and pioneers have left their mark on these now uninhabited tropical jewels. Today, as havens for huge populations of seabirds, turtles and fish, the îles éparses — scattered islands — are attracting growing scientific interest.
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History
The life and death of an SOE agent
(Under construction, but I've written a summary here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_Antelme)
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"It would take a lot to upset him, but once he got started it would take a bullet to stop him," his instructor wrote of France Antelme at the SOE commando course in Arsaig, Scotland, 1942.
| Major Antelme was one of the 14 Franco-Mauritians who served with distinction in Britain's World War II Special Operations Executive, in Vichy-controlled Madagascar and in occupied France. He was also one of the 18 SOE agents delivered directly into enemy hands. On his third mission to France in 1943, Antelme parachuted into a Gestapo- controlled reception committee. In the elaborate game of double-double bluff prior to the D-Day landings, was he duped, betrayed or just plain naïve?
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Journalism
(A tribute to a great paper).
Interned in Switzerland
During World War II, around 4,500 British Empire escaped prisoners-of-war (évadés) made it to Switzerland, where they were interned. To keep up their morale, they published a remarkable English-language newspaper. Launched in the hope that it would soon close down, Marking Time chronicled the last months in the limbo of neutrality for some 5,000 British and empire évadés.
Military refugees in Switzerland during World War II
The brief life of Marking Time
Eric the évadé and other gems
South Africans interned in Switzerland
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