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Some antithetical remarks on ‘Birdsong’

April 18, 2014

There are books with factual accounts of more or less detail about the Great War. They are called history books. …

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A sea casualty, 1794

October 21, 2013

Trafalgar Day. One of the ships involved in the Trafalgar Campaign was HMS Caesar. As a new boat, she had …

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“Fallen Leaves”

January 27, 2013

Two photographs to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. I took these at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.They depict the installation by …

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Beyond bitter: winter on the Vosges Front

December 6, 2012

The Front in the Vosges stabilised in the autumn of 1914. Joffre assured the Alsaciens that, “Notre retour est définitif.  …

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Cimetière militaire Munster: a place of stories

November 10, 2012

Munster Cemetery in Alsace is a place of stories. It tells of the worldness of war. From here I can see …

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Reichackerkopf, an enigma

July 26, 2012

When you pop a crémant cork on the mountainside above the valley it ricochets and echoes round the summer dusk shadows …

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Harry, who landed at Sword (6th June,1944)

June 6, 2012

A few years ago I spent a morning with Harry, a retired soldier from Cheshire. (I was going to tape …

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“Un bonjour amical du Tréport …” 1917

May 22, 2012

On 11th March, 1917, D Boutguin (address Hôpital complémentaire 25, Eu – a temporary hospital) wrote a card to a …

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A painful pilgrimage

May 17, 2012

Henriette, Laura, Adèle, Rose, in their black hats and second-best heavy coats and sturdy shoes, pick their way across the …

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Aside

“…l’entrée principale de ma chambre à coucher” …À bientôt, Dagez (1915)

March 22, 2012

The winter which ended 1914 was bitter, foul, thoroughly dispiriting, and it didn’t improve into 1915. The French-American academic Robert Pellissier spent …

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