• 20th Century

    Letters from an Arbeitsmaid – Part One

    My series of articles Desert Mystery: Letters from a Feldgrau, was based upon the translation of FeldPost letters in my collection that Hans Coutandin, a soldier in the Deutsches Afrika Korps, had sent to Eva [more...]
  • Fiction

    Seventeen Moments of Spring

    In 1965 Yulian Semyonov wrote an espionage thriller, No Passport Required. It received good reviews and millions of readers. More importantly, in 1968, it came to the attention of Yuri Andropov, the recently appointed Chairman [more...]
  • America

    Rocketry

    An article on the role some Erics played in the American rocket program has been beckoning me for a year or three. Everyone has heard of Operation Paperclip whereby in 1945 German scientists, some with [more...]
  • Literature

    An Old Man’s Musings Part Fifty-One

    I am not a doggie person but I must congratulate TiredofEUlies on her recent show awards. I know how proud my daughter and now my grand-daughter are when they return from riding events with their [more...]

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