Omaha Beach: D-Day June 6, 1944. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. Balkoski's work is the absolute best book on Omaha Beach. It is written in a hybrid style with narrative by Balkoski and quotes only coming in usua...
D-Day, 6th June 1944: The Official Story (TV Movie 1994) - Crazy credits on IMDb: Additional scenes, Messages hidden in credits and more...
when I was young, what I would have done if I had come out earlier, say pre-Stonewall. When I readJuliana, a novel by Vanda (Booktrope Editions; 2015) the question came back to me. The story is set in the years 1941 to 1944 in New York City which...
“In 1944 Orwell finished his anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm, which was published the following year with great critical and popular success. The royalties from Animal Farm provided Orwell with a comfortable income for the first time in his adult life. From 1945 Orwell was the Observer’s ...
“Three days after liberation I became very ill; food-poisoning. They took me to the hospital and the doctors said that I was gone. For two weeks I lay in the hospital between life and death. My situation grew worse from day to day.” ...
sharing a rare orange with Summersby; we see Stagg in near-breakdown as his wife – with , ironically, high blood pressure – is near a dangerous birth. Subtly, we are reminded that not only was three-day forecasting rare and tricky in 1944, but that women often died with pre-eclampsia...
he continued. ‘During the New Year holiday I had time to take a look at the account. Some of it is witty and sometimes even funny but it’s not me. I don’t have any social media accounts at all, of any kind. That might be unusual in this day and age, but it’s true.'...
On the Town, musical, 1944 3 Dance Episodes from "On the Town", for orchestra, 1945 Hashkiveinu, for tenor, chorus & organ, 1945 Lonely Me, song for voice & piano (originally written for "On the Town"), 1945 Facsimile, ballet, 1946 ...
Speech in Florence, Italy,, 1944. If you are only finding them with religious idiots then you haven’t looked very far. Just google “quotes by Max Planck” and you will find them hundred of places on the web. I have read at least half a dozen books on the subject but by far the...
flight engineer in aircraft AJ-J on the Dams Raid. For the book, I tracked down relatives of all the other members of this crew, but the Hatton trail went cold. So I am repeating what I know here, in the hope that one day someone will Google the name, find this link and get in...