Sunday, October 30, 2005

Revised new edition of THE BANTAMS

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REVISED MILITARY HISTORY BOOK,"THE BANTAMS", BY CANADIAN AUTHOR TELLS LITTLE-KNOWN SAGA OF FIVE-FOOT WARRIORS "The untold ...
Friday, October 28, 2005

Where "this band of brothers" once stood.

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" Agincourt ," by Juliet Barker. Reviewed by Frances Stonor Saunders. Shortly after dawn on October 25, 1415 , 6,000 Eng...

Memories of WWII air war.

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A Walk In The Valley, by Robert C. Kensett, General Store Publishing, Burnstown, 120 pages, photographs. Each time one reads a memoi...

Sic transit gloria ...

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NELSON MUST BE TURNING IN HIS GRAVE. By Tom Utley 21/10/2005 ) At daybreak 200 years ago this morning, the people of Britain woke wit...

Military leaders ...

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"Generals," by Mark Urban. At first glance, this line-up of great British generals contains a number of serious omissions. H...

Sic Transit Gloria ...

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Nelson must be turning in his grave By Tom Utley (Filed: 21/10/2005) At daybreak 200 years ago this morning, the people of Britain wok...

Britain's Lost Virtues

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Britain's lost virtue Richard Davenport-Hines 26 October 2005 OUR CULTURE, WHAT'S LEFT OF IT The mandarins and the masses Theodore...
Friday, October 21, 2005

An airman frozen in time.

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Some interesting new details are slowly emerging about that frozen body discovered in the Sierra Nevada, as it slowly thaws after decades en...

A Canadian general speaks out.

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WHY I WORE MY UNIFORM ONCE AGAIN By M.Gen. Lewis Mackenzie. The Globe and Mail , October 19, 2005 . In 1993, when I took my release f...
Thursday, October 20, 2005

Warriors Frozen In Time

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I hold an eternal fascination for incidences of the remains of warriors from distant wars being discovered many years later. From the famous...
Wednesday, October 19, 2005

CANADIANS ON D-DAY.

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D-DAY: Canada's part in the 24 hours that changed the course of world history. by Sidney Allinson. Each year, June 6th is honored as mar...
Monday, October 17, 2005

"IN FLANDERS FIELDS"

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ALLINSON FAMILY LINK WITH THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL WAR POEMS "IN FLANDERS FIELDS." A significant number of military historians who...
Friday, October 07, 2005

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Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front , by Richard Holmes, Harper Collins Publishers. The typical British soldier has long b...

Book review: "Soldier Boys."

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Soldier Boys , by G. F. McCauley, General Store Publishing, 317 pages, $22.95 This well-researched novel is set in the Second World War, a...
Friday, September 09, 2005

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY – COUNTER-SPY. by Sidney Allinson. Famed novelist Hemingway yearned to get into World War Two, and with his "C...