Sunday, August 16, 2009

WWII MASS GRAVE REBURIAL IN POLAND

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Mass Polish reburial of war dead . By Adam Easton, BBC. The remains of more than 2,000 people discovered in Poland's largest mass gr...
Friday, August 14, 2009

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Military historical novel KRUGER'S GOLD South Africans in particular could enjoy KRUGER'S GOLD, my adventure novel set during the 2n...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

A FURTHER LOOK AT THE EPIC BATTLE OF VIMY RIDGE

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VIMY RIDGE: A Canadian Reassessment, Edited by Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci, & Mike Bechtold, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Wa...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

NEW BOOK ABOUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

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Military history THE STORM OF WAR. (Blackwell, UK) ‘The second world war lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of ...

History of The Royal Canadian Regiment

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Military history Establishing A Legacy: The history of The Royal Canadian Regiment 1883-1953, by Bernd Horn. This regimental unit history is...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

COMOX AUTHOR PENS SEA-GOING HISTORICAL ADVENTURE NOVEL.

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Military history Successful Vancouver Island author Sean Thomas Russell has combined his twin passions for sailing and history to writ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

VON RICHTHOFEN DISPLAY IN LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN MILITARY INSTITUTE.

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The "Red Baron" display case in the Library of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, Toronto, holds artefacts from the downed F...

D-DAY TO CARPIQUET

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Military history D-DAY TO CARPIQUET: The North Shore Regiment and the liberation of Europe, Marc Milner, Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, N...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

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"THE BANTAMS" TELLS THE LITTLE KNOWN SAGA OF FIVE-FOOT WARRIORS IN WORLD WAR ONE.  "THE BANTAMS: The Untold Story Of Worl...

ALLINSON CONNECTION WITH FAMED WWI POEM, "IN FLANDERS FIELDS."

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In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still...
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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...