M.B. HENRY
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Nurses of Passchendaele
Quotes of the Week

“For what is memory but the telling of stories, whether to oneself or aloud to one another?”
– E. St. John, “Lady of the Tower”

“I saw them file past with new eyes, eyes that remembered what had happened here, in 1942, even if it had been long before my time.”
– Tatiana De Rosnay, “Sarah’s Key”

“To her, time had always felt like that, non-linear, layers you could find your way through if only you knew how to do it.  That was what she had always been searching for: the way back.”
– Nicola Cornick, “the Phantom Tree”

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A Ghost at Gettysburg: The 20th Maine’s Mysterious Encounter

The story of Joshua Chamberlain, the 20th Maine, and their heroic stand on Little Round Top is one of the most famous from the battle of Gettysburg.  While entire books have been written on the subject, a basic summary is this.  On the burning hot day of July 2, 1863, the second day of fighting between Lee and Meade at Gettysburg, the slopes outside of town dubbed “the Round Tops” came to… Read More

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AUTHOR/HISTORY ENTHUSIAST/PHOTOGRAPHER
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Today’s Book Recommendations
Operation Jedburgh
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Transcription
Nurses of Passchendaele
Quotes of the Week

“For what is memory but the telling of stories, whether to oneself or aloud to one another?”
– E. St. John, “Lady of the Tower”

“I saw them file past with new eyes, eyes that remembered what had happened here, in 1942, even if it had been long before my time.”
– Tatiana De Rosnay, “Sarah’s Key”

“To her, time had always felt like that, non-linear, layers you could find your way through if only you knew how to do it.  That was what she had always been searching for: the way back.”
– Nicola Cornick, “the Phantom Tree”

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