It seems to me that I’ve been writing very serious blogs, so I thought I’d take a moment to introduce my good friend Remy Martin, a Bouvier des Flandres (a Flemish Bouvier.) He is the model for my fictitious ‘Le Grand Charles’—‘Charlie’ for short—whom I introduce in...
On September 15th, 1940, Winston Churchill spent the day at 11 Group Headquarters in Uxbridge, in the operations room now known as the Battle of Britain Bunker. It is a remarkable coincidence that he was there to witness what we now consider to be the climax of the...
“Ignore him, Miss! What do you think’s going to happen?” the woman broke in, and Eleanor saw the other customers lean forward to hear her answer. “It will go on. Hitler’s failed to beat the RAF, so he’s turned on London. He’s trying to break our will to fight. He...
She stood by Pound outside the office and watched the pilots clambering into their Spitfires, with the ground crews hovering about them. She watched a sergeant standing on the wing of Johnnie’s aircraft, helping him strap in. A Merlin engine stuttered to life, and...
World War II is one year old today, and England is at the Breaking Point WWII began on September 3rd, 1939. Hitler’s Germany had invaded Poland on September 1st, and Britain and France had given him an ultimatum to reverse course. Hitler did not, and war was declared....
