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England have only won only five series in Australia since the Second World War, their last coming in 2010-11.
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James Wallace, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
Since the nineteen-sixties, both Jews and non-Jews, especially in Germany, came to see the Second World War through the lens of the Holocaust.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
What would another instalment of Downton look like, into the Second World War?
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Following the Second World War, the United Nations mandated the formation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
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James Wallace, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
Since the nineteen-sixties, both Jews and non-Jews, especially in Germany, came to see the Second World War through the lens of the Holocaust.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
What would another instalment of Downton look like, into the Second World War?
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Following the Second World War, the United Nations mandated the formation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
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