tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post3874613318073717755..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Clare Mulley tells the extraordinary story of Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville)Jim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-52980503844750012602022-02-02T03:42:45.777+11:002022-02-02T03:42:45.777+11:00Great share, thanks for postingGreat share, thanks for postingRalph Bhttps://www.ralphbishop.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-11837412387841890692019-10-22T11:03:34.645+11:002019-10-22T11:03:34.645+11:00Morning marcellous. I loved the performance I must...Morning marcellous. I loved the performance I must admit.<br /><br />Interesting on your Dad. I think that there were very mixed results. The commando raids out of Australia, for example, were badly handled, I think. But there were also considerable successes such as the pipeline used to get Polish pilots and military personnel out. They really added to the war effort.Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-10958338104986857652019-10-19T18:51:04.452+11:002019-10-19T18:51:04.452+11:00Jim
I lacked the patience for a real-time broadca...Jim<br /><br />I lacked the patience for a real-time broadcast so looked her up on Wikipedia.<br /><br />Doubtless fascinating.<br /><br />In my late father's effects were numerous reminiscences of this sort of thing, including a memoir of the WWII forerunner to the SAS. It's never clear to me how much such ventures really achieved in terms of contributing to ultimate victory, as apart from providing a safety valve for letting off high spirits of (mostly, not always) generally upper-class desperadoes - especially once the consequences of retaliations against civilian populations are taken into account. The SAS methods only really bore fruit in irregular warfare against colonial insurgents in the post-war years.<br /><br />I guess that's a bit spoil-sportish of me, especially as I haven't watched the talk yet.marcelloushttp://marcellous.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com