Articles...
Oct 23 2007
A CZECH fighter pilot who escape his occupied homeland to battle doggedly against the Nazis from abroad for the rest of the war has died, aged 89....
Oct 22 2007
TO THE brave airmen lost in a strange land, she was the Little Mother. To the Gestapo’s torturers, she was just a slip of a girl....
Oct 19 2007
DEBORAH KERR was the lovely Scottish lass who came to represent the epitome of "the English rose"....
Oct 18 2007
PROSPECTS for a young man, who was one of nine siblings, were probably not that great immediately after the war in Northern Ireland....
Oct 17 2007
HE WAS the flesh behind the celluloid image, but in truth it was the face on the screen which left the lasting impression....
Oct 16 2007
TO THOSE who expected their Scottish heroes to wear kilts, sprout hairs on their kneecaps and skirl a bagpipe at the first scent of haggis, he was something of a surprise....
Oct 15 2007
IT WAS built from bed slats, floorboards and bits of wire, all held together by stiff upper-lips made in Britain, but reluctantly exported to Colditz Castle, the forbidding heap of ancient stones in eastern Germany....
Oct 12 2007
MOST movie stars’ names shine in the lights, but the neon sign outside the whitewashed, single-storey building in north Hollywood had burned out....
Oct 11 2007
IT WAS deadly serious, yet sometimes there was a hint of the public school wheeze about the English officers, who foxed their German captors, often for brief periods, as Europe descended into hell....
Oct 10 2007
YOU could say he was a charming old man in his tweed cap, a relic of the old Ireland of peat fires and muddy fields; keen-eyed, sharp-featured and quite loquacious in the right company....
