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20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part Seven

3rd November 2025 Going Postal 0

Back in March of this year, I authored a series of articles on GP based on my translations of the Feldpost letters of a German soldier, Hans Coutandin, to his girlfriend Evchen Möller. Part 6 [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau” Part Two

5th March 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 1, I recounted what Hans Coutandin had written to his girlfriend Eva Möller in his letters of early 1941 as he transitioned from being an “Arbeitsmann” in the “RAD-Abteilung 3/250” to be in [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: “Letters from a Feldgrau”, Part One

26th February 2025 Going Postal 0

My previous series of articles (“Letters from Afrika”) was based on the “FeldPost” letters from Hans Walden, a driver in the Afrika Korps, to his pen-friend Hildegard Bronnold back in Germany. This new series of [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery – Does Using AI Software Work?

5th February 2025 Going Postal 0

In my last series of articles (Desert Mystery – Letters from Afrika), I described what had happened to a German Afrika Korps driver, Hans Walden, during the WW2 Desert War through the translation of the [more…]

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Taleb A. – An Untypical Terrorist?

28th December 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Labelled by mainstream media as an untypical terrorist and referred to by the German legal system as Taleb A., Taleb Jawad H al-Abdulmohsen was born into a Shiite family in February 1974 in the Saudi [more…]

20th Century

A Ukrainian Enigma

10th October 2024 Going Postal 0

I have an original photograph bought as part of a “bundle” from a militaria seller whose business model is to put together sets of documents, photographs and ephemera that appear to be vaguely related so [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Four – Berlin

17th September 2024 Going Postal 0

When my friend Alfred Friedel comes off duty it’s usually somewhere around one o’clock in the morning. For Alfred is a newspaperman. And morning newspapermen the world over live like owls. Take a good look [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Three – Hamburg

10th September 2024 Going Postal 0

You climb into an aeroplane at Amsterdam Schiphol and as soon as you are comfortably airborne, you order an excellent dry sherry and nibble at a picnic lunch which you don’t really need. You try [more…]

21st Century

France Isolated in its Proposal to Send Troops to Fight Russia

19th June 2024 Going Postal 0

By Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert. France appears increasingly isolated in its decision to intervene directly in the Ukrainian conflict. Not even major [more…]

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