I'm just about to start that.About 3/4 of the way through Fall of Giants, the first book in The Century trilogy by Ken Follett. It's epic!
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The Century Trilogy is an absolutely brilliant readAbout 3/4 of the way through Fall of Giants, the first book in The Century trilogy by Ken Follett. It's epic!
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I think it talks about this guy in the book. Was a genuine hero. The book goes into some smaller detail about what the Japanese did but I think they did far worse things in other parts of the country, particularly northern China. Pure madness.I haven't read the book but I have read about this massacre online. It was absolutely horrendous with some really horrendous acts of violence and torture.
The irony of this though is the hero of it was a member of the Nazi party and saved between 200-300k Chinese lives! A few years after the war he was punished by the allies and was basically living in poverty and the survivors of the massacre who he helped came together and raised money to help him and his family and also sent monthly food packages to him.
Great book.Just started Stakeknife about the infamous IRA informer
I didn't want to go into too much detail about his attitude towards Alex Ross in case you hadn't read that part but was astonished that Bader prevented him from returning home nearly two years earlier than he did. I also think the phone call from Bader to Ross sums Bader up nicely as the self centred man he was.Absolutely. Selfish arrogant narcissist. Boyhood hero of mine, but certainly not now.
His orderly could have been home with his family months earlier, but Bader forbid it.
I knew part of the story already. Just seems to have been a really unpleasant chap. Came to the school in Thornaby a number of times and met the children, but even then he wasn’t exactly charming according to someone I know who met him.I didn't want to go into too much detail about his attitude towards Alex Ross in case you hadn't read that part but was astonished that Bader prevented him from returning home nearly two years earlier than he did. I also think the phone call from Bader to Ross sums Bader up nicely as the self centred man he was.
Below is an extract from an article on Alex Ross from The Telegraph.
When the camp was finally liberated by American troops on April 16 1945, Bader succeeded in hitching a lift with an American woman journalist and got back to England the next day. The remainder of the PoWs packed their belongings in boxes and were flown back to Britain two days later; their baggage never arrived. After debriefing, Ross went to visit his family at Tain, on the Dornoch Firth, north of Inverness, and while there he was summoned to the Post Office to take a long-distance call from Douglas Bader.
The Battle of Britain hero wanted his spare pair of legs, and Ross had to explain that the Americans had not allowed them to bring anything back with them - in any case, Ross later insisted, there were no spare legs. Bader swore at Ross and put down the telephone on him. It was the last occasion on which Ross heard from Bader.
Alex Ross
www.telegraph.co.uk
Going to meet the author soon about this book. (Steaknife - a reputed British intelligent informer in higher reaches of the IRA)Great book.
Which one? There seems to be a few and this sounds like something I'd enjoy.Just started Stakeknife about the infamous IRA informer
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Thursday Murder Club - read the first couple of very short chapters and it seems very funny
Ahem.Nearly all of them are at least 1" thick and 8" long when they could be half the size.