Mark Collins – “The Lord of the Rings'” Origin at the Bloody Somme

Yet another aspect to a terrible battle that haunts us still: How J.R.R. Tolkien Found Mordor on the Western Front Credit Rebecca Bird IN the summer of 1916, a young Oxford academic embarked for Fr…

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Mark Collins – “Storm of Steel”, or, Ernst Jünger: German World War I “Born Warrior” (with Canadian angle)

Ernst Jünger

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Mark Collins – What’s an Intellectual Romanian Jew to do Before WW II?

The start of an article in the NY Review of Books: Surrounded by Jew-Haters John Banville May 26, 2016 Issue For Two Thousand Years [see here] by Mihail Sebastian, translated from the Romanian by P…

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Mark Collins – “2084”: Islamism and Another Novel in French

Further to this post, “Der Untergang des Abendlandes”, Islamism and French Novel Section we now have a terrifying vision of victorious Islamist totalitarianism (1984 updated)–one wonders how …

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Mark Collins – Audio with Translation: Hitler Talks to Finnish Leader Mannerheim, June 1942

Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim was head of Finland’s military during World War II; from 1941 until 1944 Finland fought alongside Germany against the Soviet Union though not as a formal ally (th…

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Mark Collins – Richard Fadden: A Canadian “Spymaster” and Maisie Dobbs

Further to this post, National Security Advisor to Canadian PM Retires…Successor? one finds rather a lot of sense in this interview with the fellow. As for Maisie Dobbs: … What do you do to r…

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Mark Collins – A Great Magazine, or, Encountering the CIA

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Mark Collins – “Der Untergang des Abendlandes”, Islamism and French Novel Section

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Mark Collins – The Man Who Wrote the “Jackal” Was a Spook!

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