Part of the tragedy often not mentioned is despite French feelings of betrayal around 100,000 French troops were evacuated along with the British. But only about 3000 of those troops would remain in Britain to later join de Gaulle’s Free French forces. The vast bulk were repatriated to France before it fell, a…

... this drug bust ranks as the largest New Zealand has ever seen — and by quite a wide margin

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