https://news.google.com/newspapers
-- but I don't have much time, so my fallback is this Youtube series you might want to check out:
https://www.youtube.com/
Enjoy and, if you watch, let me know what you think.
Sunday, September 15, 2019
World War Two Week by Week -- the War begins!
As mentioned at the September meeting of the War Book Club, as this is the 80th anniversary of WW2, I'm going to try and follow the war day to day or week to week --I was planning to spend time reading old newspapers thru the GoogleNews Archive:
https://news.google.com/newspapers
-- but I don't have much time, so my fallback is this Youtube series you might want to check out:
https://www.youtube.com/
Enjoy and, if you watch, let me know what you think.
https://news.google.com/newspapers
-- but I don't have much time, so my fallback is this Youtube series you might want to check out:
https://www.youtube.com/
Enjoy and, if you watch, let me know what you think.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Defeat of the Third Reich to the Genesis of the Cold War
The Lifelong Learning Centre will host a course with the above title starting September 18th at 1:30 pm.
Description: This course will first examine what led to the defeat of Nazi Germany, between 1939 and 1945, and then examine what led to a falling out among the very powers that had engineered that defeat.
The instructor is Dr. Clay Burlingham.
The course takes place at the revamped old campus and there are spaces still available.
Defeat of Third Reich to Genesis of the Cold War
Description: This course will first examine what led to the defeat of Nazi Germany, between 1939 and 1945, and then examine what led to a falling out among the very powers that had engineered that defeat.
The instructor is Dr. Clay Burlingham.
The course takes place at the revamped old campus and there are spaces still available.
Defeat of Third Reich to Genesis of the Cold War
Monday, August 26, 2019
War Book Club Minutes, June 4th
WAR BOOK CLUB
JUNE 4th, 2019
(*) indicates
available thru Regina Public Library
*Appel: a
Canadian in the French Foreign Legion/Joel Adam Struthers
:
*Blood, Oil and
the Axis: the allied resistance against a fascist state in Iraq and the Levant,
1941/John Broich:
*The Canadian
Battlefields in Normandy: a visitor’s guide/Terry Copp:
*The Cruel
Sea/Nicholas Monsarrat:
*D-Day: the
greatest invasion: a people’s history/Dan Van der Vat:
The Destruction
of Convoy P.Q. 17/David Irving:
*Every Man a
Hero: a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war/Ray
Lambert:
*The First
Wave: the D-Day warriors who led the way to victory in World War II/Alex
Kershaw:
*Six Armies in
Normandy: from D-Day to the liberation of Paris/John Keegan:
*Spearhead: an
American tank gunner, his enemy and a collision of lives in World War II/Adam
Makos:
*The
Thunderbird, the Quesnel, & the Sea/Bev Lundahl:
Next Meeting:
Tuesday, September 3rd – that’s right, September – summers over,
dagnabit!
Topic: the best
war/military history books you read this summer – and you must have read one or
two. I’d be the first to tell you I had no time to read and I read plenty.
Meeting time is
7:00 pm – hope to see you all then.
Cheers, Warren
James
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
War Book Club Minutes: May 7th meeting
War Book Club minutes: titles discussed:
Britannia’s Navy: on the west coast of North America,
1812-1914/Barry M. Gough:
Canada Under Attack: Irish-American veterans of the Civil
War and their Fenian campaign to conquer Canada/Cheryl MacDonald:
Gunboats on the Great Lakes, 1866-68: the British Navy’s
show of force at the time of Confederation/Cheryl MacDonald:
Hunting Eichmann: how a band of survivors and a young spy
agency chased down the world’s most notorious Nazi/Neal Bascomb:
The Last Invasion of Canada: the Fenian raids,
1866-1870/Hereward Senior:
Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 battle
that made Canada/Peter Vronsky:
Unit 731: Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the East –
Japanese Biological Warfare in China, 1933-45/Yanjun Yang & Yue-him Tam:
When the Irish invaded Canada: the incredible true story of
the Civil War veterans who fought for Ireland’s freedom/Christopher Klein:
Next meeting: Tuesday, June 4th at 7 pm – topic –
what else? – D-Day…or whatever you happen to be reading.
Cheers, Warren James
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Canadian Aviation Historical Society Meeting, May 8th -- change of venue!
The May meeting with speaker Dan Dempsey, will take place at the Serbian Club at the Avonhurst Shopping Centre, 2775 Avonhurst Drive (original venue was double-booked).
Speaker: Dan Dempsey
Presentation at 7:30 pm. Supper with members and the speaker at 6 pm. All aviation history buffs are invited.
No charge for the presentation but there is a $5 "landing fee" to help cover costs.
For more information, contact;
cahregina@hotmail.com
or call text:
306.533.6103.
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Friday, April 19, 2019
War Book Club minutes: April 2nd
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!
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