Literature

Claudius The Bee, by John F Leeming

26th May 2020

John Leeming seems to have been a remarkable man. Born in 1895 into a middle-class Mancunian family, Leeming was an accomplished glider pilot by the

Old Soldiers Never Die – by Private Frank Richards. DCM MM

28th April 2020

This extraordinary memoir catalogues the experience of the author as he underwent four years in the western front trenches without even being wounded – an

GBH by Ted Lewis

21st April 2020

Published in 1980 this was Lewis’s last book before he died of the drink aged 42. A very large proportion of my (male) friends would

Waiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes

15th April 2020

I have a friend who owns an original, signed photograph by Robert Capa, it is one of his most precious pictures. It shows three women

Major Thompson Lives In France and Major Thompson and I – by Pierre Daninos

6th April 2020

Contributed to Raceweb by “High Rise” First published in 1955 then again in 1957 – this is a musing on the differences between the French