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Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike

1st July 2021 Roger Ackroyd 2176 Comments

There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]

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Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth

23rd June 2021 Martin Mezger 3419 Comments

Mid-February, 2020: My wife and I stayed at our favourite hotel on the South Devon coast.  There was a woman there who was coughing a bit, actually quite a lot; we didn’t think too much [more…]

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Book Review: Honest, Not Invent

14th June 2021 Grimy Miner 4205 Comments

Stanislav, a young Polish plumber, in reality a creation of blogger Ismael Smith, now sadly no longer with us. His comments first appeared below the line in the place we don’t speak of, and subsequently [more…]

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Book Review: Mani, Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh-Fermor

13th June 2021 1642again 2522 Comments

It is no secret that I absolutely love the writing of Patrick Leigh-Fermor, a man whose life would have been wonderfully interesting even if he had never published a word. I sketched out something of [more…]

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Take Your Daughter to Work Day

9th June 2021 Roger Ackroyd 2106 Comments

Prologue by Roger Ackroyd Recently located in the piles of papers here at Ackroyd Towers was a copy of a report made by Lily Ackroyd on her “Take your daughter to work day” assignment for [more…]

17th Century

Book Review: The Noble Revolt by John Adamson

6th June 2021 1642again 2129 Comments

So, you know all about the causes of and lead up to the English Civil War?  John Pym was leader of the Parliamentarian party, it was all about taxation or religious tolerance…  Everyone knows that, [more…]

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The Avila Gold

1st June 2021 Grimy Miner 2139 Comments

The Avila Gold is a novel by David Westheimer, who also wrote, amongst other things, “Von Ryan’s Express”, later made into a very good film, with Frank Sinatra in the eponymous role. The Avila Gold [more…]

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Book Review: Patrick Leigh-Fermor’s A Time of Gifts Trilogy

9th May 2021 1642again 2055 Comments

Frequenters of Going Postal, being a generally knowledgeable lot, may well have heard of Patrick Leigh Fermor and, if not, will probably be familiar with the war film ‘Ill Met by Moonlight’ (starring Dirk Bogarde) [more…]

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The Goodnight Vienna Spring 2021 (Ladies) Competition

26th April 2021 Swiss Bob 2039 Comments

Courtesy of Reggie you can win a bar of precious metal (silver) pictured above by submitting your articles between now and the 23rd May. Other prizes will be on offer, possibly some crystal ware if [more…]

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