Tuesday, July 08, 2008

The British Columbia Bantams

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The B.C. Bantams by Sidney Allinson. The little men in khaki seemed impossibly short to be Canadian soldiers. Barely over five feet ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

THE BANTAMS march again!

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NEW REVISED EDITION OF MY MILITARY HISTORY BOOK, "THE BANTAMS", TO BE PUBLISHED BY PEN & SWORD BOOKS IN BRITAIN IN 2009. ...
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...