Remembering The Four Chaplains
A friend of mine reminded me that yesterday, Feb 3rd, was the anniversary of the sinking of the US troopship Dorchester during World War Two in 1943. This incident made […]
A Canadian Christmas On Salisbury Plain, 1914
This post is taken from the Advent/Christmas edition of the newsletter of the Anglican Military Ordinariate, for those of the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service of the Canadian Armed […]
A Chaplain Honour Roll
Kudos to Mad Padre’s Man In Norwich for telling me about this website dedicated to UK war memorials. Very much a work in progress at the moment, but the author […]
A Plug For The Great War Blog
I discovered this blog the other day, and I recommend it. Each day covers a different aspect of World War One. It’s well written and researched, and worth the […]
Remembering Two Canadian Chaplains Who Fell On D-Day
Honourary Captain / Rev. George Alexander Harris. Originally from Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Harris was the Padre to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, and died on D-Day at the […]
Book Review: Fred’s War. Discovering a Grandfather’s Lost War
Andrew Davidson. Fred’s War. London: Short Books, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-78072-181-1 Andrew Davidson and I have a few things in common. We both have a grandfather (two in my case) […]
Book Review: Ian Buruma, Year Zero: A History of 1945
Ian Buruma. Year Zero: A History of 1945. New York: The Penguin Press, 2013. I am not entirely sure how to describe Ian Buruma. He’s a Dutch citizen based […]
Book Review: Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation
John Boyko. Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. ISBN 978-0-307-36144-8 The title of this book, in […]
The Cold War Was Weird And Scary
Last week I learned via an academic History List about a book documenting Project Dribble, underground nuclear tests in the US state of Mississippi in the early 1960s. Apparently […]
Reassessing The First World War: Max Hastings’ Catastrophe 1914
It’s been a long time since a blog post here, so how about a book review I’ve been meaning to post for a few months, which I revisited in light […]