In southern France, Italy, Russia, a decisive harvest began. A peasant army hundreds of thousands strong, strung out on a vast peaceful front from Siberia through France, was advancing by ...

Pilot Amy Johnson lands after a record flight of 12 days, 15 hours from London to Cape Town and back. 1940 McDonald’s opens ...

Zapata, south of the capital, did not have this advantage and, both by preference and necessity, led a genuinely peasant army. The number of Zapatista forces fluctuated according to the ...

tirelessly organized China’s peasants while others concentrated mistakenly on workers in the cities, ultimately forged the great peasant army and tailored the dogma which carried Communism to ...

“the titanic struggle between the then undefeated divisions of Hitler’s Wehrmacht and Stalin’s largely peasant army whose officer class had been shredded in the purges of the 1930s.