In 1945, a Collie-German Shepherd-Siberian Husky mix called Chips returned home to Pleasantville, New York. He’d seen North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, but he was not on a tour or a vacation, he was [more…]
The Loss of Northern Malaya By now the Japanese Army was deployed in Siam and Northern Malaya and the British decided to conduct an exercise akin to rearranging deckchairs of the Titanic. They formed the [more…]
With Hong Kong being in the news it has brought back a memorable incident at the beginning of my working life as a radio news reporter in the former British colony. It’s April 1983. I’d [more…]
“Malka and Shlomo in the Secret Shtetl” was inspired by a story which circulated within dissidents circles when I was a student in Moscow in the early 1980s: several villages in Siberia were so remote [more…]
The Air Battles On the morning of 9th December 1941, six Blenheim light bombers took off from Singapore to attack Singora. They were expecting fighter cover, but the fighters allocated to defend them when they [more…]
Back Channels The events in Londonderry on the 30th January 1972 that became known as Bloody Sunday are still in the news today and still a cause of controversy. Whilst the shooting of civilians by [more…]
Introduction Although I regularly used to drive down Meerut Road in Brockenhurst on my way home from work for many years, it wasn’t until I read George McDonald Fraser’s superbly researched ‘Flashman in the Great [more…]
There have been quite a few occasions when one wished one was a fly on the wall to listen in on a conversation. The private discussion between Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King’s Musick, [more…]
I subscribe to a 1940s Society publication and in one of the issues a year or two ago was where I first saw mentioned something called ‘Soundies’ that came along in the early part of [more…]
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