A Radical’s Diary: June 29, 2003
FROM 11 a.m. to 1:30 pm I have a first meeting at the Sheraton with Don S., who is an art dealer and expert. Don is now aged 77; he…
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World War II
Documents, research, and analysis covering the Second World War period (1939-1945). Primary source materials on military history and political developments.
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A Radical’s Diary: May 6, 2004
I HAVE been sent by an anonymous reader horrifying screen-shots taken from poor quality videos showing people in American army camouflage uniform seemingly committing a number of sexual acts on…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: August 10, 2004
AN INCORRIGIBLE friend writes overnight from Nevada apologizing for having got it wrong: "I prophesied that your $1,000 reward offer would never be published.
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: November 11, 2004
TODAY is the third day of the American (oops, "coalition") offensive against Falluja in Iraq. We know only what we are told by the media, who are embedded only with…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: November 16, 2004
HOW unfortunate. Only last night we witnessed the Dickensian spectacle of a frock-coated Mr Sanctimonious Blair attending a Guildhall banquet with his smirking foreign secretary Mr Lugubrious Straw; Britain's much-loved…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: July 31, 2004
ROTTEN night, weirdest dreams yet, very exhausting. Phone rang at 3:53 a.m. (from "unknown"). Awake from 2 then 3 a.m., wandered into the Mosquito Room at 5:30 and slept two…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: April 3, 2005
A SMATTERING of heavy dreams including one in which I spy a Josephine, aged around seven, walking towards me in a yellow top and white shorts. I often think of…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: February 20, 2005
BOB has installed the new search engine I commissioned. I congratulate him, and he replies: "I am rather proud of it. I have been testing it quite rigorously. So far…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: December 2, 2001
TWO nights ago I phoned Walt M. in Philadelphia, as I had heard rumors that he had had problems with the Kempner collection since I visited him. He has sent…
Read more →Diary: June 5, 2005
Real History, and memories of an Essex wartime villageDocuments on the
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