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A Centurion’s Tale

It is 1 January 107 BC. Caius Marius has just entered his first consulship and inherited the command of the conflict still raging in Numidia, a war that has thus far swallowed the reputations of three senatorial generals. He has his earlier experiences of Numidian campaigning serving as one of the legati of the distinguished general Quintus Caecilius Metellus, although obviously without the responsibilities of supreme command.

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Extract from Over Cold War Seas

The tension erupted into a crisis on 1 June 1948 when the western Allies announced the intention to form a new state in West Germany: on 23 June, the Soviets responded by closing land access to West Berlin, hoping to discourage the formation of the new state and perhaps in the hope that the western outpost deep within East Germany would capitulate.

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