soc.history.war.misc

In article <9c2cd2b7-d66e-4bd0-85f7-71e33c5c458b@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
martin wrote:
>Last night I listened to a one-hour standup act by Rob Newman, a
>satirist, author, comedian and political activist (this was on a BBC
>digital radio statio, BBC 7).
>



Fun, isn't it. A stage performance of it is on Google. Highly
recommended

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159


It caused me to do a bunch of reading about the place and period and
IMO, he simplifies things to the point that I wouldn't quote him for
anything that I didn't confirm via better sources.









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