Monday, May 26, 2008

"The Onion Files."

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[Victoria Times Colonist, May 25, 2008.] Ex-Intelligence Chief Val Pattee Now A Successful Author of Spy Novels. By Sidney Allinson. ...

VIMY RIDGE: A Canadian Reassessment.

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VIMY RIDGE: A Canadian Reassessment, Edited by Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci, & Mike Bechtold, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Wate...

"In Flanders Fields."

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My own late father, Private Thomas Allinson, served in the First World War as a soldier with The Green Howards, a famous regiment of the ...

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN BREAKER MORANT WAS SHOT BY FIRING-SQUAD

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"Breaker Morant" is one of the best motion pictures set during the Anglo-Boer War ever filmed. However, it took a lot of liberti...
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Monday, August 13, 2007

JEREMY KANE: a Canadian historical novel of the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion.

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JEREMY KANE: a Canadian historical novel of the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion and its brutal aftermath in the penal colonies of Australia . ...
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PALESTINE: The roots of conflict.

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The Palestine Mandate: "Lucky Tommy: in the middle again." by Sidney Allinson . America 's current experience of bloody r...

Historical Ignorance.

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"D-Day, 1899, and President Denzel Washington is leading the liberation of New Zealand from the Nazis." By Chris Hasting an...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Interview With Wilbur Smith

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BEST-SELLING AUTHOR WILBUR SMITH TELLS ME HOW HE WRITES SUPERB AFRICAN ADVENTURE NOVELS. By Sidney Allinson. “Victoria’s delightful,” says b...

"A Good Innings."

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(Book Review) I’ve Had A Good Innings, Paul A. Mayer, General Store, Renfrew, 2006, 219 pages, photos. This admirable memoir recounts the ex...
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...