Review: The Sledge Patrol July 6, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
Beachcombing has been delighted at the volume of correspondence for his story about Kurt the last combatant of the third Reich. Kurt though was only one of several score warriors in ‘the Weather Wars’, a largely overlooked chapter in the history of the Second World War. From1940 the Nazis were infiltrating their meteorologists into the [...]
Nazi Kurt captured in Arctic Circle in 1981 June 27, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
Beachcombing has long been fascinated by the last Japanese soldiers to surrender in the Second World War, several of whom crawled around the jungle islands of the Pacific for decades. Indeed, the very last, Nakamura, only came in from the cold in December 1974 after living for an incredible thirty years in the wilderness on [...]
