Some interesting history links (1 Viewer)

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Hello all!

Thought I’d start this post off with some links-most have to do with military history, history, that I find-and hope you’ll find-particularly interesting and/or unique(feel free to reply with your own links of this kind).

Here goes:

Great site dedicated to those courageous women of the Special Operation Executive(SOE) who were dropped into occupied Europe during the war “to set Europe ablaze” . Some of them ended up in Ravensbruck-or worse. Includes bios of Odette Hallowes(“Lise”), Noor Imayat Khan(“Madeleine”),Vera Leigh(“Simone”), Violet Szabo(“Louise”), Kystyna Skarbek- a.k.a. Christine Granville.

http://www.64-baker-street.org/main/index.html

Photos of headstones from of the The British Cemetery in Kabul. The cemetery is not far from the site of Sherpur Cantonment of Anglo-Afghan Wars fame and contains some graves from the 2nd Afghan War and that of explorer Aurel Stein.


http://scotfot.com/BritishCemeteryWebsite/BCHome.html


Geoff Walden’s excellent site full of great photos of Germany then(WW2 era) and now(much like “After the Battle” magazine)

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/


U.S. Army in Germany-loads of info, photos, about units, kasernes, posts in Germany from the Occupation through the 90s.

http://www.usarmygermany.com/

A New Criterion article about Patrick(Paddy)Leigh Fermor. Includes his commando activity in Crete, the kidnapping of Gen. Kreipe and his superb travel writing.


http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/jan01/downing.htm


This site has a collection of photos from the life of jazz trumpeter and bandleader Buck Clayton including his stint in pre-war Shanghai at the Canidrome Ballroom.

http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=claytonic;


And finally, the site of a 51st Evacuation Hospital veteran. Great personal photo collection of wartime Algeria, Italy, France, Germany.

http://www.rogue-publishing.com/51st/rulison/index.htm