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| Partisan ![]() Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cheshire, England
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__________________ ![]() The Motherland, bent over her daughter's ashes, Sings this tender maternal song About Zoya, the girl, who has become a legend, Who died and was born for eternal life. Dimitri Shostakovich Song for Zoya (1944) The War in the East | |
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| The Dixie Division ![]() Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Not far enough in the woods
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Agree with you Zoya, Hendrix is better taken in small doses. | |
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| Senior Member ![]() Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :)
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![]() | When I was "step father" to a wonderfull little girl I made the amazing discovery that Jimi Hendrix was magnificent alternate to lullabys, She would drift off to Purple Haze and be in the land of nod halfway through Waterfall ![]()
__________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything." ![]() Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney |
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| Senior Member ![]() Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: By the mighty Don,no,not the Russian one :)
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![]() | "Just listened to This Land Is Our Land , the Springsteen version on You Tube" Springsreen's OK,but its got to be the Origional Woodie Guthrie for ma,he was a pure poet.
__________________ "I don't know a lot about anything - but I know a little about practically everything." ![]() Vincent Price in "Laura" 1944.(avatar,the gorgeous Miss Gene Tierney |
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| I Like Tanks. ![]() Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Always quite liked the Billy Bragg Version. Shuffly about reggae today in a Ken Booth - Artibella stylee, Lovely. Rounded off with a bit of a Dub Syndicate 'things falling off shelves' session after the school pick up... sprogs seem to have enjoyed it anyway .
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| Ostfront is where its at! ![]() Join Date: Apr 2004
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![]() ![]() ![]() | cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops drops YouTube - Pearly Dewdrops Drops - Cocteau Twins
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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![]() | Testament - 'Afterlife'. Testament's new album is a corker, bless the riffs!
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE agent Andree Borrel killed at Natzweiler 6th July 1944. ![]() |
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![]() ![]() ![]() | Faithless - Drifting away.
__________________ "The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse." - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino) |
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