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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »