Edwin P. Hoyt, an American military historian and journalist, served in the US Air Force, worked for the War Information Office from 1943 to 1945, and later became a journalist and taught at the university.
After a terrible defeat in the spring of 1940, the 1st Division of Free France was formed in the Middle East from volunteers coming from England, all colonies and escaping from a humiliated and enslaved homeland.
It might seem to some that architecture is inherently immune to ideology and politics, that is, the social process, that it must be understood only as a work of art.
After the defeat of the German armies in France in August 1944, it seemed that the end of World War II was at hand and that nothing could stop the victorious Anglo-American troops from advancing into Germany.
Doubts about what was and was not the Battle of White Mountain, what was at stake there and what its real role was in the events associated with the then ongoing Thirty Years' War, have been expressed in the past by a number of researchers.