BOATS AND CANALS

Although it is a children's book, written by the author of 'War Horse', it is a story that I just read and read until the end.

It is about a stranger on a train telling a story to a boy and his mother, as they leave Coventry after the bombing there in WW2.

The stranger tells of a soldier and his unit who, as the First World War was ending, came across a young German soldier. Seeing how pitiful he looked, the British soldier told the German "To go home" The German walked away, heading home.
That German soldier was Adolf Hitler.

The book is unputdownable!

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To the world you are someone. To someone you are their world.

I Cannot Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought

It does sound like a good read.

At the moment I am not getting much chance to read for pleasure, but I do still read a lot, all kinds of Educational Bumf, oh well I did volunteer to be a school governor.

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Maurice

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It must have been in Fromelles, France. Where the action took place.

My friends great uncle was killed there fighting Adolf Hitler in a charge against the trenches.

My grandfather was at Mons and Ypres in the trenches, he joined up with a "Pals Brigade" and only two of them returned.
Anybody remember the "Angel of Mons"

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Laurie Booth
http://www.pamelasalem.net

The story I have of The Angel of Mons is the Allies were outnumbered 100-1 by the Germans.

Then a bright being 'with yellow hair and golden armour and riding on a white horse' came to their aid, looking for all the world like St George, the patron saint of England', said the British soldiers. Archangel Michael's light shone on what looked like thousands of British troops lying in position against the German army. The German horses refused to move forward, and they turned sharply and fled. It was the turning point of the Battle of Mons.


Adolf Hitler is known to have owned a copy of a painting by Fortunino Matania, commissioned by the Green Howards in 1923. Private Henry Tandey VC, MM DCM appears in it with an injured comrade over his shoulder.

In 1938 Hitler told British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain why he had the picture depicting Tandey. "That man came so close to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again" Hitler asked Chamberlain to convey his thanks to Henry Tandey.

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To the world you are someone. To someone you are their world.

I Cannot Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought

And to think how many lives would have been saved if Henry Tandey had killed Hitler.

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Laurie Booth
http://www.pamelasalem.net

The story in the book goes on where the British soldier (after seeing the newsreels of Hitler,) goes to Germany in 1938 in an attempt to kill Adolf.

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To the world you are someone. To someone you are their world.

I Cannot Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought