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06-11-2007, 11:50 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | Wartime Courage Gordon Brown's new book, Wartime Courage, documents the heroic efforts of those who fought for Britain during WW2. It focuses specifically on the sacrifices made by what the Prime Minister calls Britain's "greatest generation" ? those who gave their youth and freedom so that those who came after them would not have to. Below are five extracts from the book, each a remarkable tale of courage and dignity. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/ma...gordonbook.xml
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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06-11-2007, 11:52 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | The PM wrote a book?
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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06-11-2007, 11:54 PM
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__________________ _________________ Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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07-11-2007, 01:48 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Maybe he has a crystal ball and thinks you lot may flick him at the next election  
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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07-11-2007, 01:52 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | May? Don't need a crystal ball to think definately. If this is his normal writing style then I hope he sticks to it when he leaves office because he is very good.
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07-11-2007, 07:44 PM
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You're Top Poster: #8  | English A Mathematics E Must try harder or Gordon could end up being Chancellor of the Exchequer! Have to grudgingly admit that I enjoyed his writing too.
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07-11-2007, 11:56 PM
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You're Top Poster: #10 | It does look an interesting book and I may well read it some day. I am prepared to believe his sentiments are genuine but I hope he puts his money (or even our money) where his mouth is and ensures that servicemen wounded or traumatised in Iraq and Afganistan are adequately compensated, cared-for and counselled, and that their families can live in decent accomodation. |
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08-11-2007, 07:55 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Very good extracts, easy reading and no gloss.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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