The Hissing Fuse

As promised some time ago, I've begun transcribing a small cache of letters I've found from my grandfather, who was serving in the...

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of he...

I was going through boxes and boxes of old family photos, most of them from 1980-2010, I came across one box that had old, old photos, clear...

A friend introduced me to the excellent Daedalus Books in Columbia, Maryland, who deal primarily in remaindered books and have an excellent...

I have to say, I found this is a ripping wee book. It's the first-hand account of a British soldier in World War One, from his enlistme...

Three posts out of seventeen apologising for a gap in posts is not a good thing! But various events have kept me from giving The Hissing Fus...

One interesting remark I came across in Coppard's memoir was that a Jewish soldier in his regiment was allowed, in the spring of 1916, a...