Selasa, 14 Maret 2017

Cold War in Corfu

Was a British Royal Navy flotilla making an ‘innocent passage’ or provoking a paranoid Albanian dictator in late October 1946. The waters of the world are perhaps its greatest museum, their depths concealing drowned cities, submerged ancient harbors and fleets of lost ships. For more than half a century maritime archaeologists have explored the depths, …

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