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 The Portuguese island of Madiera was, until recently, an isolated spot - a small volcanic outcrop off the coast of Africa - just 35 miles l...

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Recently I took a walk on the waterfront at Wicor, Portchester where, according to my father, the Soviet Union had sabotaged a barge unloadi...

 In his self-serving autobiography 'Inside the Third Reich', Albert Speer devotes a whole chapter to 'architectural megalomania...