Author dorabenley

The white Russians seem to want to imitate western Europeans. Stalin would have been perfectly content to be Hitler’s crony and divide up Eastern Europe. Eerily enough this is the position they find themselves in again without the world war… Continue Reading →

Rommel very nearly won the whole world war for Hitler in North Africa. He came very close. Only the lack of supplies and reinforcements stopped him. Remember he who controlled the Middle East controlled the petroleum supply. Without that Britain… Continue Reading →

I think Churchill should have defied Eisenhower and let Montgomery take Berlin at the end of the war. It shouldn’t have been in the Russian sector. What do you think?

Are you a fan of actual World War 2 battles? Which one is your favorite? The big battle coming up at the end of Captive At The Berghof is the Battle of El Alamein. To be specific, First Alamein before… Continue Reading →

Oh neat! The Purple Council started 800 years ago at the time of King John and the Magna Carta or something like that. Around the year 1200AD? We saw a copy of the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral. Would you… Continue Reading →

I’m arranging an ad for this one right now. It will run until at least February 15 which is my launch date — maybe until the anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania, May 7, 1915.

Thanks for the correction about the wild pigs. I thought that the pigs feasting on acorns in the New Forest were wild. But Gary looked it up in my book on the New Forest. I was getting wild pigs confused… Continue Reading →

As part of my research for Key to Lawrence (also the scene you haven’t yet read in Captive at the Berghof about the HMS Queen Mary) we sailed on the Queen Mary 2 back and forth to Hamburg stopping in… Continue Reading →

The first 70 pp of Key to Lawrence is perhaps the most historical part of the whole series. It’s about the last voyage of the Lusitania from May 1-May 7, 1915. The only fictional characters in the whole 70 pp… Continue Reading →

Isn’t it true that in 1964 England abolished a lot of things having to do with the hereditary peerage? After that date nobody got anymore titles except Sir. Isn’t that right? And now you can’t pass the title on in… Continue Reading →