CAN NOW BE PRE ORDERED

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Post by Juan Mancheño » Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:40 pm

In the end, Spain had its Borboun King...
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Post by j1mwallace » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:17 pm

Its a bit unfair blaming Barry, Dave . It was Louis XIV's fault.
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Post by obriendavid » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:00 pm

j1mwallace wrote:Its a bit unfair blaming Barry, Dave . It was Louis XIV's fault.
No! Barry probably put him up to it. :lol:
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Post by barr7430 » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:26 am

Gentlemen,

I feel much more at ease now. Dave, Chairman of the CAC (Churchill Appreciation Club :wink: ) and Jim(Treasurer of said club) have directly addressed the points I was originally making. I could tell we were having to wrench that concession out of Dave with a pair of pliers! In the spirit of entente cordiale.. I will accept that compared to his contemporaries Marlborough was indeed an outstanding performer. However his performance was not really the issue of the debate (very informative and rather good natured really :D ). It was about the 'News International' type publicity machine that got going afterwards and has never really stopped. I admit I would be the guy standing in the middle of the railroad tracks trying to stop the express train with a red flag but that is just my awkward nature :roll: If everyone esle says red I usually say blue :oops:
Two things then.. Jim's mention of no French writing about Marlborough. I think the reason for this is that they have found a much more respected miitary 'Rock Star' in Napoleon. If they never ever do another thing militarily in the history of the world they can dine out on Nappie for the rest of the existence of France and still class themselves up there with the Romans! Louix XIV, his life and times would have probably featured more promenently in historical writing if Napoleon had never existed. My twa' penneth on that.

On the large scale European adoration of Marlborough... well they would wouldn't they. He help scare off the bogeyman Louis XIV and for that you are going to be grateful.
A recent little example from my own experience. In Czech Republic with a Czech national having a beer. I commented on the ubiquity of McDonalds joints and how I always got a little unsettled by global American Corporations colonizing the High Streets of the planet. Quick as an instant he fired back..
"I love McDonalds and I love the Americans. Let's face it (looking straight at Barry the Brit) they were the only ones who never invaded us, betrayed us, abandoned us or stabbed us in the back!" :oops:

Case rests...


And by the way... I must admit, I WAS directly responsible for the WSS! I stuck my tongue out at a Frenchman once :twisted:
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Post by obriendavid » Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:41 pm

barr7430 wrote: And by the way... I must admit, I WAS directly responsible for the WSS! :twisted:
We know you or one of your ancestors started it Clarence has put a picture of one of them on page 4 of BLB2 :wink:
whereas if you had been a bigger T I T you would have been on page 3 :lol:
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Post by flick40 » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:10 pm

I'm not a raving fan of Marlborough but neither am I in the He Man Churchill Haters Club. At the time of James the El Crapo he probably liked, secretly supported (internally, like cheering for the underdog in a sporting match) and held out hope he would pull his head out of his butt. But alas he never did and he thought "That went well didn't it?", and moved on. Had he been killed in battle I hardly think his last words would have been "would it were for James"
"...they were the only ones who never invaded us, betrayed us, abandoned us or stabbed us in the back!"
Give us time, were a young country. :P

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Post by Duke of Plaza-Toro » Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:13 pm

obriendavid wrote:
barr7430 wrote: And by the way... I must
whereas if you had been a bigger T I T you would have been on page 3 :lol:
Barry exposed in News International publication!?

Has his phone been hacked?
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Post by barr7430 » Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:17 pm

The abuse I have to suffer at the hands of North Berwick's own Rupert Murdoch or is it Rebecca Brooks?

I could spend a bit more time on TMP and get abuse proportionately LESS... Mr O'Brien is just missing me :wink:
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Post by CoffinDodger » Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:40 pm

barr7430 wrote:The very book I heard the man talk about. It was supposed to be a 300th anniversary talk about Malplaquet but he missed the date in 2009! said he couldn't talk about the battle in 2010 as it was not appropriate to the anniversary and plugged the book instead. It was a good event. Holmes actually wasn't too biased I must admit. Quite reflective on some of the points I have made also.
Gentlefolk,

I was reading the latest issue of WARGAMES illustrated and was saddened to see the news that Professor Richard Holmes CBE has recently died at the age of 65.

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Post by barr7430 » Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:42 am

yes, i forgot to post that. I found it in the Obituaries in The Times a few weeks ago. I think it was in late May, early June. I mentiomed it to Charles Grant who didn't actually know at that point. I think he knew Richard Holmes. I believe he had been fighting cancer for some time.

Very sad.. a very inspiring man. Hmm, maybe I did post it somewhere in the Forum..
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Post by j1mwallace » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:41 am

North berwicks own rebecca brooks
Yeah , davd looks just like her with his long thick red hair!
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Post by Ben Waterhouse » Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:14 pm

Arrived this morning, yay. The envelope was, however, in pieces.
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Post by barr7430 » Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:30 pm

Book in OK Nick Ben? :shock:
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Post by Ben Waterhouse » Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:33 pm

barr7430 wrote:Book in OK Nick Ben? :shock:
Book and two cards were perfecto! :D
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Post by barr7430 » Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:16 am

Alles Klar!
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