Things Past, Things To Come
With the centenary of the end of the First World War upon us, I found myself the other day contemplating (not for the first time) the War Memorial in a small town in the south of England not far from my home. There they were, the lost boys, row upon row upon row of good English names – and a sprinkling of Irish, Scots and Welsh to keep them company. What did they think they…
Generation War – Our Mothers, Our Fathers
By Max Musson: BBC 2 have begun to broadcast the highly acclaimed three part German World War Two series, ‘Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter’ (Our Mothers, Our Fathers). The first episode, ‘A Different Time’, was broadcast yesterday (26th May) and is still available to watch on BBC iPlayer for another six days. The second episode, ‘A Different War’ will be broadcast next Saturday evening at 9:30 pm. This series depicts the effect that the Second World War…
Ukraine – The ‘Orange Revolution’ Turning White?
By Max Musson: Many people in Britain will have viewed events in Kiev over the last three months with a certain amount of confusion: we are after all a long way from Ukraine; government and politics operate rather differently there; and lines of communication between our two countries are such that most of us must rely on the mass media for news of what is actually taking place. The confusion stems from the fact that…