'A Cavalryman's Long Road East'
A soldier's memoir of campaigning with horses from 1939 to 1942 — the mud, the cold, and the animal that carried him through all of it.
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Sunday Feature
Longer weekend reads on memoirs, diaries and other timely features ...
'The Pilot Who Kept a Diary'
A young fighter pilot's private record of a single summer of air fighting — written each night, never intended to be read.
AUG 2Gold coin linked to Hitler tops $50 million at private auction
A 1937 coin said to have been carried by Adolf Hitler has reportedly drawn offers above $52.3 million — a claim historians and numismatists treat with considerable caution.
AUG 19The interrogation of a captured agent
The Security Service view of a man dropped by parachute — they had his cover story on file and knew almost to the hour when he would arrive.
AUG 16Armour advances across the open desert
15th August 1941: A tank crew records the choking dust, the mechanical failures and the long silences between short, violent actions in North Africa.
AUG 15A charter agreed at sea
14th August 1941: Aboard warships in a quiet Newfoundland bay, two leaders set their names to a short statement of war aims that reaches far beyond the war itself.
AUG 14The oldest soldiers
11th August 1941: An evening drill of the Home Guard — old rifles, older men, and a seriousness that outsiders were too quick to mock.
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