Locations
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Central African Jungle
The Congo Basin is a globally important climatic region with annual rainfall of between 1500 and 2000 mm. It is one of three hotspots of deep convection (thunderstorms) in the tropics, the other two being over the Maritime continent and the Amazon. These three regions together drive the climate circulation of the tropics and beyond. The…
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Libyan Desert
The desert’s bare rocky plateaus and stony or sandy plains are harsh, arid, and inhospitable. Brittanica.com Parts of the Libyan Desert include the Sahara’s most arid and least populated regions; this is chiefly what sets the Libyan Desert apart from the greater Sahara Wikipedia
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Tripoli
Situated in the curve of a bay, Tripoli rises from the yellow sand-dunes in all the splendor of an Oriental city—a radiant vision. Travels in North Africa, Nahum Slouschz, 1927 In November 1942, the Allied forces retook Cyrenaica. By February 1943, the last German and Italian soldiers were driven from Libya and the Allied occupation…
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Dublin
The war experience cut Ireland off from the mainstream of European life in these terrible years, but also served to consolidate Irish statehood. Censorship, rationing, an unwillingness to accept Jewish refugees with significant exceptions like the mathematician Edwin Schroeninger, meant increased insularity and self-reliance, but also consolidated statehood and a sense of shared identity. Wikipedia…
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London
By the end of the war, the economy of the United Kingdom was one of severe privation. More than a quarter of its national wealth had been consumed. Until the introduction in 1941 of Lend-Lease aid from the US, the UK had been spending its assets to purchase American equipment including aircraft and ships—over £437 million…
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Paris
The end of the war did not end the hardships of the Parisians. Rationing of bread continued until February 1948, and coffee, cooking oil, sugar and rice were rationed until May 1949. Many of the factories around the city had been bombed during the war, and were still in ruins. Rue des Rosiers Before the…