Five Days in London – John Lukacs

I’ve been in something of a non-fiction kick for a while and a conversation with Dad a couple of weeks ago brought me to Five days in London – May 1940”. It covers May 24-28 and examines the actions of the British government and the decisisons made during what may have been the pivotal moment of the 20thcentury. Churchill had been Prime Minister for two…

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Zakuani in WSC

Nice article in When Saturday Comes (a long running monthly British football dead tree magazine), I tried to find an online reference, but with no luck. It talked about Steve Zakuani and examined his choice to play collegiate football and take part in the Generation Adidas program rather than try to learn the trade in the lower divisions in Europe. It’s certainly more lucrative, the…

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H.G. Wells

Today is the birthday of H.G. Wells and Google celebrated with Google-Doodle with UFO’s and Martians razing the countryside. Brought up in a working class household he apprenticed as a draper and chemist before returning to school and eventually gaining a scholarship to what become the Royal College of Sciences (and now part of Imperial College London) where he became politically active and furthered his…

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