Hope I'm not jumping the gun here but the #1940Club starts next week and I've been gearing up and getting…
Norman Pearson returned towards the end of January, after an absence in Spain and Portugal, bearing two bananas, two oranges…
Researching Marienbad and the Savoy led me to Erika Mann and all the gossip, scandal, politics, and drama of her…
In Our Flag Stays Red (1948) Phil Piratin - the Communist Party MP for Mile End - wrote an account…
Every Christmas growing up my family received a greeting card from the Stingl family. I knew that my grandmother, mother,…
The Year Begins in October Armistead Maupin based his vignettes of gay life in 1970s San Francisco - Tales of…
Hands down, this is the best book I've read all year: All For Nothing by Walter Kempowski. It's the bitter…
I did, in the first weeks of the war, before I got my commission, suffer severely from 'evacuees'.- Evelyn Waugh in…
"What are you doing in the wardrobe?" "Narnia business" C.S."Jack" Lewis spent childhood years in a house in Belfast where…
All our stories begin before we are born. Not Just the blue eyes or flat feet we inherit, but the…
My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…
This post is in answer to the question "Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?" At least in terms of…
P.G.Wodehouse and A.A. Milne were the same age and in 1941 they were both close to 60. As young men…
Few things in this war have been more morally disgusting than the present hunt after traitors and Quislings. At best…
In Hamelin in Lower Saxony. there's an inscription on a wooden beam on the side of the Rattenfangerhaus (rat catcher's…