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How We Won The War–and Those Other Guys Didn’t

Posted on August 18, 2015 by ronbase — Leave a comment

The building where the Gestapo tortured, maimed, and killed hundreds of French men and women, and from where thousands were dispatched to gas chambers in the east, sits at fourteen avenue Berthelot near the River Rhone in central Lyon. Lingering…

Tagged with: Alan Turing, Bletchley Park, Churchill War Rooms, Edward Prince of Wales, England, France, Hermann Goering, Hitler, Imperial War Museum, Klaus Barbie, London, Lyon, Marshal Pétain, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth, The Imitation Game, The Museum of the Resistance, Third Reich, Vichy, Winston Churchill, World War II
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The Hottest Show In London

Posted on July 15, 2015 by ronbase — 1 Comment

The hottest show in London this summer isn’t playing in the West End. It’s at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is pretty much sold out through August. If you want tickets, you must book weeks in…

Tagged with: Alexander McQueen:Savage Beauty, Björk, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, David Bowie, Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War, Imperial War Museum, Lady Gaga, Victoria and Albert Museum, Winston Churchill, World War II
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Standing In Airports, Holding A Book, Listening To Stories

Posted on December 21, 2012 by ronbase — Leave a comment

This week a reader of The Sanibel Sunset Detective novels e-mailed me several questions, ending with this one: “Why does a man with ten published books to his credit spend his time hawking a handful of them in an airport?”…

Tagged with: Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, Captiva Island, Chicago, Ford, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, France, Galapagos Islands, Germany, Hitler, James Patterson, Nazis, Ontario, Pete's Time Out, Sanibel Island, Shanghai, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Windsor, World War II
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James Bond Saved My (Sex) Life

Posted on September 25, 2012 by ronbase — Leave a comment

I know exactly what made James Bond so popular when I was a kid fifty years ago. Sex. James Bond was not just the world’s most famous secret agent. He was also the first sexual superhero (the only one, come to think…

Tagged with: 007, Auric Goldfinger, Brockville, Casino Royale, Daniel Craig, Dr. Julius No, Dr. No, Goldeneye, Goldfinger, Honey Ryder, Ian Fleming, James Bond, John F. Kennedy, Lawrence of Arabia, Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, The Longest Day, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, To Kill A Mockingbird, Ursula Andress, Vanity Fair, World War II
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