• Enfidaville War Cemetery, Tunisia

    Enfidaville War Cemetery, Tunisia

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    When I arrived at the Enfidaville War Cemetery in Tunisia, I discovered I wasn’t the only Australian there…

  • Beneath the Streets of Prague, Czechia

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    I find Cold War history frightening and fascinating, so when I found out there was a museum in a nuclear bunker right under the city centre of Prague, Czechia, I promptly booked myself a tour.

  • Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part II, France

    Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part II, France

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    Below Calvi’s towering citadel walls, we descended beneath the waves to explore one of Corsica’s World War Two ghosts.

  • Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part I, France

    Diving the Ghosts of Corsica, Part I, France

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    Just off the Corsican village of Miomo, a mystery of World War Two lies in twenty metres of water.

  • Visiting Mac, France

    Visiting Mac, France

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    It was a cold and drizzly day when we pulled up beside V.C. Corner Cemetery near Fromelles, France. We had come to visit a member of our family who had been in Fromelles since 1916.

  • Hangar 10, Germany

    Hangar 10, Germany

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    A big part of why I had traveled to Germany’s Baltic Coast was to visit the small village of Zirchow. And the entire reason I wanted to visit the small village of Zirchow was to go to Hangar 10, a museum which houses a unique collection of rare aircraft.

  • Exploring the Westwall, Germany

    Exploring the Westwall, Germany

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    Remnants of Hitler’s Westwall fortifications, known as the ‘Siegfried Line’ to the Allies, can still be found along Germany’s western border.

  • Red Cross Concentration Camp, Serbia

    Red Cross Concentration Camp, Serbia

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    Visiting the Red Cross Concentration Camp was unsettling, confronting and heart-wrenching.

  • Visiting the Berlin Wall, Germany

    Visiting the Berlin Wall, Germany

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    Although I couldn’t reconcile the tourist carnival of Checkpoint Charlie with the gravity of what had occurred there during the Cold War, the remnant of the Berlin Wall was a chilling reminder of the consequence of placing social theory and political ideology above human dignity.

  • Machern Stasi Bunker Museum, Germany

    Machern Stasi Bunker Museum, Germany

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    Tucked away near the small village of Machern is a Stasi bunker that remained a secret until the end of the German Democratic Republic in 1989.

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