Category: Literature

Oh, What a Lovely War!

For thirteen days in 1962 President Kennedy chaired a committee convened to decide what the United States should do about Russia’s (secret) deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

A Village at War

I enjoyed Margery Allingham’s Traitor’s Purse published in 1941. The hero is her own Bertie Wooster: Albert Campion.

Books by the Bridge

The internet and AbeBooks has taken a lot of the fun out of shopping so I was pleased to come across Hurlingham Books near Putney Bridge on Monday. It is a browsers’ paradise, stacked high with a marvellous miscellany of everything under the sun.

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Big Bang?

It took God six days to create the heavens and Earth. Max Hastings writes about thirteen days in 1962 when Mankind tried to destroy a good part of His work.

Very Valuable Advice

“Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call The Sky is the highest. In fact, the reason he is called The Sky is because he goes so high when it comes to betting on any proposition whatever. He will bet all he has, and… Continue reading Very Valuable Advice

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