Sunday Almanac, 6 January 2013

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Sunday Almanac, 6 January 2013

What we played over New Year's, plus the original design doc for Deus Ex, the secrets of a professional pickpocket, and more.

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OBollocks

The WWII story is a great one, although it over-eggs the pudding slightly:

He was a veteran pilot with an iron sense of right and wrong; a man who would never kick another while he's down.

Check out Karl von Muller, a WWI German naval captain who carried out warfare in the most honourable way available to him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Emden_(1906). An opponent worthy of respect.

devensega

See, this is why I still love WW2 stuff. The most brutal, savage period in history (maybe, it's a contender) and you still get men like these.