Items discussed:
Flyboys: a true story of courage/James Bradley:
HMS Ulysses/Alistair MacLean:
One Lucky Devil: The First World War memoirs of Sampson J.
Goodfellow/Sampson J. Goodfellow:
Sharks and Little Fish/Wolfgang Ott:
Sharpe’s tiger: Richard Sharpe and the siege of
Seringapatam, 1799/Bernard Cornwell:
Trinity: a graphic history of the first atomic bomb/Jonathan Fetter-Vorm:
Obscure Battles and Wars:
Here are some websites which might give you all some ideas
of what you could read in support of May’s topic, Obscure Battles and Wars:
Obscure Battles:
Wars:
And for those of you who like to watch:
Pride yourself on your knowledge of Canadian Military
History? Why not check out this list of Wars involving Canada – maybe there are
conflicts on this list you’d like to learn more about:
And let’s now forget the wars that involved Canada before
Canada was Canada, eh? Seven Years War, anyone?
Upcoming program of interest:
Sudeten Anti-Nazi Exiles in Saskatchewan:
For more information, visit:
Movies discussed:
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957):
Both James Trettwer and I recall being freaked out by this
movie when we were kids and watched it on TV: for me, the freak out was when
two sailors are killed while in their tent:
“What’s that sound?”
“Sounds like a kid dragging a stick along a picket fence.”
“We ain’t got no picket fence here.”
“AWWWWWWWW!!!!!”
It’s actually an interesting little B-film and available on
Youtube:
Also on Youtube, Warren’s “Creepypasta” channel:
Next meeting, Tuesday, May 7th at 7 pm, Central Library – Happy
Reading!
