My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…
This post is in answer to the question "Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?" At least in terms of…
Few things in this war have been more morally disgusting than the present hunt after traitors and Quislings. At best…
In Hamelin in Lower Saxony. there's an inscription on a wooden beam on the side of the Rattenfangerhaus (rat catcher's…
As is ever the case, I found these images on the IWM site while actually looking for something else. They…
As of last week, the only thing I knew about Agnes Smedley was that The Feminist Press had reissued her…
While T.S.Eliot was skulking about in green face powder, Gertrude Stein was communing with Cubists and inventing linguistic collage. And…
They say the war is over. But water still Comes bloody from the taps. from 'Redeployment,' Howard Nemerov In April…
My uncle Lawrence Holford was killed by a Bristol Beaufighter. Maybe two. My father worshipped his older brother Laurie, and…
George Orwell had an interesting chance encounter with a blasé conspiracy theorist at the Café Royal in 1940. (See left). The young…