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as always I have a few books on the go at present, (one in each of the bathrooms and one by the bed, lol)

1.) Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Richard Winters by Larry Alexander.

just started this and it is very interesting


2.) War Diaries, 1939 - 45. FieldMarshall Lord Alanbrooke

Very, very interesting, especially these newly published and unexpurgated versions.


3.) Military Trainning in the British Army 1940-44. By Timothy Harrison-Place. An older and well known book and very, very illuminating.


4.) The Originals: The Secret History of the birth of the SAS in their own words. Edited by Gordon Stevens.

Interviews by Stevens of many of the Originals from the WWII desert campaigns and after. Essential to have these words by these men written down for posterity. I was especially touched by the note on Dave Kershaw that appears at the start of the book, page ix of the Authors preface.

I've also managed to re-read Kurt Vonnegurts Slaughterhouse 5 over my morning coffee in Starbucks, which I enjoy every morning after I drop my boy at school.

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There's a good chapter on Zeppelin use during WWI.

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The old lady who lives next to me is about 96 years old, maybe older. Her 2nd Husband was a Major with the Royal Artillery during WWII and was invalided home in a wheelchair. Sadly he passed away before I moved here. She once told me that she remembered being in London when it was first bombed. "Oh I said, during the Blitz?". Back comes the reply, "No you silly boy, in 1915 when they came over in Zeppelins and dropped bombs on us. I was a school girl then and had just come up to London from my boarding school, my poor old Mother was dreadfully worried about me". Suitably admonished I skulked off and looked it up and lo and behold.....A living memory of WWI right next door. By the way she still drives her own car and organises outings for the 'old dears' who can't look after themselves very well, (retired folks in their sixties and seventies). She's something else that old dear and I suspect she'll be one of the mourners at my funeral