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Category Archives: Book
This week in the War, 17–23 June 1940: Two tourists in Paris
Most visitors to Paris love the city—and I’m no exception; I adore it—and most come in July or August. It’s the time of year when Parisians flee to the countryside, abandoning their parks and boulevards to hordes of tourists. Paris … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Speer, de Gaulle, Edmond Michelet, Hitler, Paris, Shirer
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In the news/Book review: 6 June–Anniversary of D-Day
Today (6 June) is the day when veterans and dignitaries of the warring nations of WWII gather on the beaches of Normandy to give thanks, and to honour the fallen of 68 years ago. This week, tourists will fan out … Continue reading
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Tagged Churchill, D-Day, Martin Gilbert, Omaha, Overlord, Utah
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Book review: Atonement by Ian McEwan
With summer on the way and time to spend at the beach (park? backyard?), you might take along Atonement—if you’ve not read the book already. Ian McEwan captures the pre-WWII life of the English gentry. His heroine, Briony, is a child … Continue reading
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This week in the War, 27 May–2 June 1940: The Snow Goose
The Snow Goose, Paul Gallico’s coming-of-age novel, is set in the lonely marshlands of Essex during World War II. A young girl named Fritha finds a injured snow goose and she and a surly lighthouse keeper nurse the bird back … Continue reading
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Tagged Atonement, Dunkirk, Ian McEwan, Paul Gallico, The Snow Goose
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This week in the War, 20–26 May 1940: Maxime Weygand–man of the hour
Monday 20 May 1940, General Maxime Weygand (who had been appointed French commander-in-chief the previous day) met with General Gamelin, whom he was replacing, and with a government which was already beginning to panic. The seventy-three-year-old Weygand had (like de … Continue reading
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Tagged Churchill, de Gaulle, Maxime Weygand
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In the news: Kittyhawk’s Sahara crash site found after 70 years
Seventy years after Rommel’s Afrika Korps and Monty’s Eighth Army were battling for control of North Africa, an RAF fighter plane belonging to Britain’s Desert Air Force was found in the Sahara Desert. According to the British newspaper The Telegraph … Continue reading
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Tagged Kittyhawk, Michael Ondaatje, Rommel, Sahara
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This week in the War, 6–12 May 1940: “Wake up! The Germans are coming…!”
On the morning of 10 May 1940, American journalist Claire Boothe Luce was asleep in her room on the top floor of the US embassy in Brussels when a maid shook her by the shoulder, urging her to wake up … Continue reading
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Tagged Chamberlain, Churchill, Clare Boothe Luce, New York World's Fair, Norway, Roosevelt
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This week in the War, 22–28 April 1940: Clare Boothe Luce
This week in the war, on 25 April 1940, American journalist and author, Clare Boothe Luce, left France for England. She had been in Europe since February and had already visited Italy and had toured the Maginot Line in France. She … Continue reading
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In the news: Romanino’s Christ
The Italian Renaissance masterpiece, Christ Carrying a Cross Dragged by a Rogue, painted by Girolamo Romanino, was seized by US officials while on tour in Tallahassee and, as reported in the British newspaper The Telegraph (19 April 2012), returned to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Girolamo Romanino, Hermann Goering, Hitler, The Lost Museum
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This week in the War, 15 April–21 April 1940: Hitler’s birthday
Saturday 20 April 1940 was Adolf Hitler’s fifty-first birthday. In a typically ebullient radio broadcast, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels said, “The German people have found in the Fuehrer the incarnation of their strength and the most brilliant exponent of their … Continue reading
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Tagged Eva Braun, Hitler, Shirer
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