Image: Old New Meets New Old January 17, 2013
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
***Flu day*** Queen Elizabeth is fifty-seven years older than she was when the photograph above was taken (4 April 1955): Churchill, meanwhile, has been in the grave for forty seven years. However, this image has an energy that altogether belies its age. After all, here, in a single snap, are the two most important Britons [...]
Review: Five Days in London December 19, 2011
Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
***Dedicated to Sword&Beast*** John Lukacs, Five Days in London, May 1940 (1999) has a simple thesis. The United Kingdom could not have defeated Hitler alone, but she could have lost the war before the Soviet Union and the USSR entered as Allies. And she never came nearer to this, according to Lukacs, than 24-28 May [...]