Historical Themes

These my be prose or poetry inspired by history, or possibly even short historical fiction pieces, if I do any pieces of that sort. Some of the pieces in the Society and Order Collection may also be inspired by history.

Siege Of Leningrad

Siege of Leningrad, Starvation and cruel noose around the city by Nazi fascists. Hitler wanted them to suffer, Content to let them starve slowly to...

Commemoration For D Day

Commemoration For D Day Thousands of soldiers flung onto the North Coast of France. Normandy here we come! Young and malleable, dutiful and primed,...

Nightmare In Trafalgar Square

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There was noise below. Thousands of people milled in the Square below. That was not entirely abnormal, in his occasional wakeful periods, when the...

Failed Revolutions

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Where the revolutions could not succeed because they fell out amongst themselves, and didn’t behave with enough decency to stop the bloodshed. Stalin...

Propaganda!

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At the present moment there is Propaganda all around us! I am doing it! I am on Facebook fighting the war of ideas, the war of words, rather than the...

Civilians In War

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20/10/23 Of course civilians should be allowed to have the necessities, and the wounded and injured. Those are supposed to be the modern rules of war...