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Standing with Giants: A Postcard from Pompey

13th April 2026 SharpieType301 0

‘Twas on a grey, damp and dismal day in January that, together with a couple of my ‘dementia friends’, I headed off to Fort Nelson, one of Palmerston’s Follies. This particular Fort is not quite [more…]

20th Century

Letters from an Arbeitsmaid – Part Two

24th February 2026 Going Postal 0

In Part 1, I described how in late 1943 and early 1944, Hildegard Uhl had written to her friend Eva Möller, the recipient of Feldpost from the Afrika Korps soldier Hans Coutandin of “Desert Mystery: [more…]

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Land Grab or Business as Usual, Part Two

24th January 2026 Always Worth Saying 0

1867 & After the War The United States has made several historic attempts to buy Greenland, reflecting its long-standing strategic interest in the world’s largest island. Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of [more…]

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 Six

2nd April 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 5, the relationship between Hans Coutandin and Eva Moller appeared to have changed, he was now in Africa and had narrowly missed being captured. In his next letter of the 3rd March 1943, [more…]

20th Century

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

26th March 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 4, I recounted how Hans Coutandin had been recovering from his head wound in the Reserve Military Hospital in Lörrach, Germany, had been told that he was to be released and had seen [more…]

20th Century

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

19th March 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 3, I recounted how Hans Coutandin, in his letters to his girlfriend Eva Möller, wrote that he had been to Wilna in Poland, then Minsk in Byelorussia, had then been wounded in the [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…]

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