It gest better than that
wingate was a religious fanatic,
ate onions virtually all the time
is (probably) the only non jewish person whose name is on an institute in
Israel
is the inventor of the nigh squad
in israel -- to this day, he is simply
haver
the friend
(the origin of his views is biblical, Gideon etc.)
Quatsch wird gelöscht, ohne gelesen zu werden
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
הִשְׁתַּדֵּל הִזְדַּקֵּן
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 6:58 AM david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Let us know what you think when it arrives. It has a British point of
view, but I think that, for example, what he says about the Chinese
contribution is not what everyone else says and is worth saying. His
evaluation of the Chindits is fair, and I didn’t know that Wingate, their
leader, was related to Lawrence of Arabia and a nudist. When I read that
this fellow who recently has raised money for the NHS by walking up and
down his garden had served in that campaign I wondered how. Rough place to
be, but as in all warfare, it’s about the luck of the draw. He’ll
re-adjust your sense of what happened with P.O.W.’s when you see the
percentage of British who survived under the Japanese and those from other
countries. There’s no “Bridge Over the River Kwai” about the Dutch, but I
got an inkling when I was a kid and some Dutch adults I was with crossed
over the road rather than share the pavement with someone Japanese.
David Ritchie,
Portland,
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