The Caribbean honours its overlooked WW1 soldiers
By Gemma Handy St John’s, Antigua From BBC Ask ex-servicemen in Antigua and Barbuda about their country’s contribution to World War One efforts and the response will be delivered with ample pride and a touch of pique. This Remembrance Sunday…
An absence of peace: When is a war actually a war?
By Jonathan Marcus From BBC Earlier this month, a relic from World War Two intruded into daily life in north London. A 500lb Luftwaffe bomb was discovered by builders excavating in the leafy suburb of Brondesbury. Local homes were evacuated,…
Queen Elizabeth becomes UK’s longest-reigning monarch
Reuters From Times of India EDINBURGH: Queen Elizabeth, who ascended the throne aged just 25 as her exhausted country struggled to recover from the ravages of World War Two, makes history on Wednesday when she becomes Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. At…
Caribbean Volunteers At War – Review by Mark Barnes
From War History Online It was the Friday of another Longest Week and I was ploughing through the mud at the swampy finale to the War & Peace Show’s life at the Beltring Hop Farm when I saw a man…
