Infantry at War 1939–1945

Infantry at War 1939–1945 Purnell’s History of the World Wars Special J. B. King and John Batchelor, 1966 Phoebus Publishing Co., UK, reprint c. 1973
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Infantry at War 1939–1945 Purnell’s History of the World Wars Special J. B. King and John Batchelor, 1966 Phoebus Publishing Co., UK, reprint c. 1973
(Tanks & Weapons of World War II Phoebus History of the World Wars Library Edited by Bernard Fitzsimons BPC Publishing Ltd., UK, 1973 printed in Belgium
(Uniforms and Decorations of World Wars I & II Phoebus Heraldry and Regalia of War Edited by Bernard Fitzsimons BPC Publishing Ltd., UK, 1973 printed in Belgium
(Weapons of War Chris Cook and John Stevenson, 1980 Crescent Books, CA, 1980 ex libris sticker on first leaf: Hank Barrick Youbou BC
(Mr. England: The Story of Winston Churchill Raul Manning and Miltion Bonner, 1941 The John C. Winston Co., US, 3rd edition 1942
(The Long Left Flank: The Hard Fought Way to the Reich 1944-1945 Jeffery Williams, 1988 Stoddart Publishing, CA, 1988 printed in US ex libris signature on first leaf: R. F. Hank Barrick
(Social media is an endlessly droll cocktail party. People hiding under their best veneer and the mercenaries swarming around them hoping to be noticed. Watch-me dancers and the idiot that thinks wearing the lampshade as a hat is funny multiplied to infinity. Histrionic reactions to things that don’t deserve attention just to make conversation. And the same vapid conversations over and over and over. People making brilliant observations they just overheard. This weasels that are just there to network. The ones there because their friends dragged them along. The ones there for FOMO. The ones petting the cat in the corner just wanting to leave. Etc., etc..
(I saw a screencap of this, that I now cannot find, where someone replied with a picture of an articulated bus without any further commentary. That’s funny enough, and says everything there is to say about commuting by bus—but as a further extrapolation I now cannot stop thinking of cars as chaotic minor demons running willy-nilly over the urban hellscape.
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