Time, Blood and Money in World War Two September 17, 2016
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
It is perhaps the best quotation about the Second World War. ‘The British gave time, the Americans gave money, the Soviets gave blood’. In other terms the defeat of the Axis was made possible by the UK hanging on in the summer of 1940; by the Americans ability to outproduce the enemy; and by twenty […]
Finishing Horace and Whittier in WW2 November 3, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : ContemporaryToday’s post represents a definite minority interest: poems being started by someone and finished by someone else in the Second World War. (Sorry). Take the extraordinary exchange between the German general Heinrich Kreipe (obit 1976) and a young British major Patrick Leigh Fermor (obit 2011) [pictured centre and right] late one night in Crete in […]
