I live in Kent (south-east England). I commute to France most days. Most French speak some English, but not many speak English any better than I...
yes, thanks.. found a comment from the Bovington museum " we wanted our Tiger to be in a film that would do it justice.."...
enjoyed it - obviously (unlike 'Mussolini' above) you have to suspend belief while watching it and even I found the climax slightly risible - just...
just started Peter Caddick-Adams' 'Snow & Steel - The Battle Of The Bulge 1944-45' ..and acquired his ' Monty and Rommel - Parallel Lives'
I think you can argue that Goodwood achieved one of Monty's stated aims in 'writing down' German strength around Caen Didier Lodieu in his book...
are you the author ???
I enjoy LibraryThing too, add lots of reviews, wish others would do more reviewing though, even if only a sentence or two
nope, in fact a Frenchman hasn't won the Tour since 1987 (IIRC), perhaps we can blame Armstrong for that. TBH Nibali only won because all the...
if travelling to La Coupole than the Batterie Todt (Atlantic Wall) museum - at Audinghen/Wissant on the coastal road between Calais and Boulogne -...
but averaged out and given the size of Greater London, the Luftwaffe was doing well if it managed ONE paltry 250 kg bomb per PER SQ mile during...
bear in mind that London even in 1940 was the biggest metropolis in the world - approx 10 times bigger than Berlin for example
..based on the British Short Mayo Composite, a piggy-back long-range seaplane/flying boat combination produced by Short Brothers to provide a...
closed to vistors until 19 July for renovation work IIRC
of over 2,200 V-1s downed by Allied fighters only around *ten* fell to the Meteor ! In his monumental 350-page history "V-1 Arme du desespoir"...
http://www.thewarandpeacerevival.co.uk/ annual War & Peace show on 16-20 July (about 10 miles from Dover Castle) if interested in V-weapons...
.. it is easy to agree with Buckley too that the reputation of the British Army has suffered through a " disturbing" and very unflattering...
lots of Germans died in American "camps" set up in Germany itself right at the war's end. These were usually just holding camps - open fields...
your premise seems to be supported by this comment from a young pilot posted to II.(Sturm) /JG 4 during the summer of 1944 quoted in Mombeek's...
.. these are 'free' for how long exactly, some 5-minute time -frame following the initial post ... I never seem to get there in time
Hi guys, the show is on C4's youtube channel here (probably UK addys only I suppose..) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtR-_qiY5I
