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Sorry – the Vikings really were that bad

Forget that guff about peaceful farmers with an interest in travel

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

Sometimes the really obvious take on history turns out to be the right one. For generations, we all assumed that the atrocities perpetrated by the Germans in Belgium at the outset of the first world war and enthusiastically reported in the British press were Allied propaganda. Yet recent research suggests that quite a lot of it was true.

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