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May 23, 2018
There have been so many books on Victoria Cross heroes that the London auction house Spink actually published a bibliography. Most of the books follow a similar path, focusing on the heroism. But after researching many of the stories I came to realise that there was another dimension. As the blurb to my book points out, ‘. . . this is the first o ...
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May 22, 2018
The Northbound London-Fort William Sleeper approaching the Cruach Snowshed between Rannoch and Corrour stations on the morning of 7 January 2010, running an hour late due to iced points. (Norman McNab, Anglo-Scottish Sleepers, Amberley Publishing) Paul Theroux’s amusing quotation, from his book The Great Railway Bazaar, sums up the sense of anti ...
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May 21, 2018
Monarch at Weymouth, 1960. (British Paddle Steamers: The Twilight Years, Amberley Publishing) Looking back on my life I was so incredibly lucky to have grown up as a boy in Weymouth in the 1950s and 1960s at a time when the harbour there was such an epicentre of paddle steamer activity. Not only did the Consul, Embassy and Monarch lay up there eac ...
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