A Street Corner in Pest
Friends tell me that I’m a ‘Master Raconteur.’ At least, I think that’s what they’re telling me. Perhaps it’s an anagram? No matter, I must recount the following. Every tall tale should have its own [more…]
Friends tell me that I’m a ‘Master Raconteur.’ At least, I think that’s what they’re telling me. Perhaps it’s an anagram? No matter, I must recount the following. Every tall tale should have its own [more…]
Introduction On Saturday 10 June, 1944, while heading north towards Normandy to help counter the Allied D-Day invasion, German troops of the Der Führer Regiment of the SS Panzer Division Das Reich, committed an unthinkable [more…]
Come the end of the second world war, the last thing Stalin wanted was any number of Russians who were potentially his enemies wandering around the Western countries. To ensure this did not happen his [more…]
Following on from the Morgenthau Plan, only partially and half-heartedly implemented, we come to the much better known Marshall Plan. This was named after General Marshall who at the time was the US Secretary of [more…]
Having written about the Morgenthau Plan, I finally found my book that detailed all the behind the scenes machinations involved in producing the Plan. It is not a pretty sight seeing as many of those [more…]
The idea for this came from some bar steward who read a comment I had made, imagine that , people reading the comments, perfidy I tell you. Anyway it seems the Morgenthau Plan may not [more…]
We can only assume but I am certain that most Governments, on most days would surely like to be able to bang someone up in jail at the drop of a hat. On the 1st [more…]
Dedicated to all those who have served & those still serving. 19,000 British soldiers died on July 1st 1916, the first day of the Somme campaign. As well as marking and recording existing graves, the [more…]
Some of you may recall that I have been trying to claim my deceased father’s WW2 medals as a Merchant Navy seaman. It has taken a year and with a great deal of help from [more…]
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