The Amazing Story of Lise Meitner Synopsis The book describes how Lisa Meitner, of Jewish heritage, found herself working as a physicist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin when the Nazis came to power in 1933; how she was hounded out of the country and forced to relocate to...
By Swords Divided: Corfe Castle in the Civil War
By Swords Divided: Synopsis Some idea of the atmosphere that pertained in Corfe Castle at the time of the English Civil War is conjured up, as I have witnessed personally, when members of the English Civil War Society come marching into town, with pikes, drums, muskets, and full regalia! During...
HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy
HMS Hood: Synopsis When the British battlecruiser HMS Hood , the so-called ‘Pride of the Royal Navy’, set sail for the North Atlantic in pursuit of the German battleship Bismarck, no one would have believed that the great ship would be sunk within a few minutes of the commencement of...
Kindly Light: The Story of Blind Veterans UK
Kindly Light: Synopsis My grandfather, Thomas Waldin played an important part in my young life. I can see him now in my mind’s eye, at work in his general stores in Winchester in southern England, which was the converted garage of my great grandmother’s house. Here, he served his customers...
A Brummie Boy goes to War
A Brummie Boy Goes To War Synopsis Thomas Waldin, an apprentice silversmith from Birmingham (and grandfather of the author), was blinded at Ypres in World War I. Yet, when all seemed lost, Sir Arthur Pearson and St Dunstan’s came to his aid. This is his story. Thomas Waldin, a 19-year-old...