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I find it a little strange that those posting on Twitter re the end of the Second World War talk as if this is something people know little ...

    I have just finished the first book of the year, 'Edinburgh at War,' by Craig Armstrong.   In spite of being brought up in Edi...

My eyes! My eyes! This has been my view all day, this laptop and screens of missing men!  Five from the first war and two from the sec...

Some people are born soldiers.  They consider any other lifestyle a waste of time.  It matters not who they fight for, where they fight...

'The Real Dad's Army' is the diary of Rodney Foster, written during the Second World War.  Foster had been born in Ind...

The bright Boxing Day sunshine tempted me out this morning, although I had no intention of boxing with anyone, certainly not after th...

. Amazon UK After I broke my leg (Thanks Charlotte!) I recuperated by reading William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third R...

. May the eighth is the day to commemorate Victory in Europe Day. Britain with its obsession with the war ought to be marking this day is...

. Wiki That great man Max had a wonderful post the other day concerning reporter Andy Rooney taking his place in a US B17 bomber as it fle...

Today we commemorate the beginning of the Second World War. Actually it had begun on the First of the month when the Nazi party dressed pris...