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Showing posts with label World War I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War I. Show all posts
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Celebrating the centenary of the horrors of Verdun

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Today, in France, the nation is celebrating the centenary of the most horrible butchery in European history: Verdun . On the morn...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Churchill's atrocious Gallipoli campaign

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The Englishman Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty, was personally responsible for the disastrous decision to start the Gallipol...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

End of our Gallipoli centenary year

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This year, my native land celebrated the centenary of the fateful Australian landing at Gallipoli (in modern Turkey) that started on 25 Apri...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Centenary of a terrible Turkish crime

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The French media are full of in-depth articles about a horrendous crime perpetrated by the precursors of present-day Turkey exactly a centur...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Anzac Day madness

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Within the forthcoming 48 hours, my native land will be moving massively into a lugubrious funereal mode of existence, incorrectly labeled a...
Friday, August 8, 2014

No glory in war

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What a superb statement! I wish I had invented such a slogan. So-called “Great War” celebrations are starting to drown us, while di...
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After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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