Book to share - October 2024 PINNEDLittle Cyclone: The Girl Who Started the Comet Line by Airey Neave (1954) The exhilarating true story of the greatest escape route of the Second World War. On a hot afternoon in August 1941, a 24-year-old Belgian woman walks into the British... See More » (1)
From great speeches of the past (1)Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation (1989) "... And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents... See More »
Colette: The French resistance fighter confronting fascismWhat if you discovered that your gran was once an young resistance fighter? Not only that, but that she was still wanting to put up a fight against fascism even today? (1)
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite on war and its effectsIn 1952, Michael Caine was called up to do his national service. Between 1952 and 1954 he served in the British Army's Royal Fusiliers, first at the British Army of the Rhine Headquarters in Iserlohn, West Germany, and then on active service in the... See More » (1)
Normandy Veteran Captain Richard Todd OBE"At about midday, we finally heard the skirl of bagpipes that heralded the approach of the Commandos under Lord Lovat. More than a thousand men passed through us on their way to the main airborne bridgehead over the Orne. It was a fine sight, and... See More » (1)
Book to share - June 2024 PINNEDLast Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War by Lynne Olson (2017) Synopsis: When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over continental Europe in the early days of World War II, the city of London became a... See More » (1)
Eighty years agoOn June 3, 1944, after intensive preparation during the spring, the landing force for the Normandy Invasion was mostly assembled along the southern coast of England for the nearly one-hundred mile journey across the English Channel to liberate... See More » (1)
Pharaoh AkhenatenPersonally, Aknenaten got somehow under my skin when I first made the association of a bust hanging in The Louvre and love in its truest form. Dorothy Porter said of Akhenaten, “I first saw him in a museum in Berlin in 1976. I had come to see the... See More » (2)
