Kathryn Thomas in India for No Frontiers
So assuming the vaccine is rolled out, and travel is green-lighted, what are her expectations around travel this year? By August/ September, I would love to envisage myself and Padraig and Ellie getting on a flight. It will depend on where we are with numbers, of course. We re going to get this virus under control, that s for sure, and then it s about everybody acting responsibly.
Travel will be interesting this year, she continues. Everyone will need recuperation, restoration, recovery, after the year we ve had. But the way people travel - often going back to the old reliable hotels and resorts - will change. Maybe people will think about something different, somewhere new, and a little less busy. Ask yourself, where am I going to feel safe? And the answer to that will mean different types of holiday, and less-travelled places, emerging. This won t be a year for group travel or bus tours. We re going to see more home-stays, more priv
How Stalin Took Japan by Surprise in 1945
Reeling from two atomic bombs, the Japanese were physically and psychologically un-prepared for a massive invasion from communist Russia.
Here s What You Need to Know: Stalin had his own agenda, and Soviet participation in the Far East was at the top of his list.
At 11:02 am on August 9, 1945, an American warplane dropped an atomic device nicknamed “Fat Man” onto the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The bomb, generating the explosive power of 22,000 tons of TNT, killed at least 30,000 people instantly. It was the second of two atomic bombs dropped in three days’ time on Japan by an American government intent on forcing the aggressor nation’s unconditional surrender and hastening an end to World War II. But it was also the day that the Soviet invasion of Manchuria officially began.