united kingdom – Meditations

November 20, 2021

Review: Freeing the Baltic 1918-1920, Geoffrey Bennett

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Bennett’s overview of the British squadron’s fight to support the independence of the Baltic nations flows. The book…

September 24, 2021

Rating: 3 out of 5 This book is a journalist’s look into the latest Prime Ministers. Going back about fifty years, we start with…

July 27, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 This is a fairly long-winded book as it concerns itself with two distinctly different operations. The first of these…

July 26, 2021

Rating: 4 out of 5 India, the Imperial subcontinent. A day in 1947 was historic, in the most basic meaning of the word, for…

December 8, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 Both Attlee and Churchill were the giants of their time, there is no doubt about that. One might doubt…

October 14, 2020

Ticonderoga has a name which might be difficult to remember at first, but once it’s in a mind it’s also unlikely to be forgotten….

August 14, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr White’s account of the RAF in the Falklands War is both spectacularly well written and contains amazing detail….

May 14, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 I liked these memories. Mr Lawrence wrote well, he managed to captivate with some very good descriptions, and, most…

April 24, 2020

Rating: 3 out of 5 I finished this a long while ago now, but I wanted to wait with a review such that I’d…

April 21, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 This is a great overview with insightful analysis — including the author noting times when other researchers disagree with…