I have just attended a fascinating breakfast briefing meeting at the Imperial War Museum learning about the plans to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 2014. Now that the last survivors have died, we are left with cold shocking facts – 350,000 servicemen left permanently disabled; for every one…
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by Lord Soley • • 4 Comments
I attended the launch of an autobiography by Eric Sanders at the Commonwealth Club http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/ last night. Eric has been a very long standing member of my old local Labour Party in Hammersmith and at 90 years of age shows no sign of flaggng having just finished the autobiography. The title is: Secret Operations, From…
