Who is This ? ? ?

[Uncle George]

1 hour ago, David Ridgus said:

Well presuming my Ernest Brooks punt is a winner, who is this chap.

I thought he might be the first in an occasional series, 'I'm a writer, not and a fighter'

David

Is he Charles Peguy?

1 hour ago, neverforget said:

The only one that comes to mind is the history teacher who walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says "Five beers please".

I don’t get it.

Edited 9 March , 2023 by Uncle George

[neverforget]

2 minutes ago, Uncle George said:

Is he Charles Peguy?

I don’t get it.

Roman numerals. No worries, it is a terrible joke. 

[David Ridgus]

1 hour ago, Uncle George said:

Is he Charles Peguy?

I don’t get it.

It's not Peguy UG but their physical resemblance is quite marked. My chap survived the Great War but not the Second World War

[Knotty]

I personally think he is like the Ukraine president Zelenskyy

 

ps Earnest Brooks,I think I gave him enough clues😀😇

Edited 9 March , 2023 by Knotty

[David Ridgus]

1 hour ago, Knotty said:

 

ps Earnest Brooks,I think I gave him enough clues😀😇

Hence my crediting of the "Berkshire Posse' !

[neverforget]

Not getting anywhere with your writer fighter, David.

[Knotty]

2 hours ago, David Ridgus said:

Hence my crediting of the "Berkshire Posse' !

I do apologise David, I’ve been a bit busy so I didn’t read the whole thing and I missed the comment.

I must admit the “Berkshire Posse” does have a ring to it 😀
 

Just realised that your chap is in a French uniform.

Edited 9 March , 2023 by Knotty

[neverforget]

3 minutes ago, Knotty said:

Just realised that your chap is in a French uniform.

That's about as far as I had got 😁

[Uncle George]

Perhaps he is Jean Giraudoux.

[Fattyowls]

3 hours ago, David Ridgus said:

"Berkshire Posse'

29 minutes ago, Knotty said:

I must admit the “Berkshire Posse” does have a ring to it

As long as nobody says we'll head them off at the pass. I hate that cliché. You could be the Royal County Massive as an alternative.

[Uncle George]

2 minutes ago, Fattyowls said:

As long as nobody says we'll head them off at the pass. I hate that cliché. You could be the Royal County Massive as an alternative.

That’ll be the day!*

*(Overdue John Wayne reference.)

[David Ridgus]

1 hour ago, neverforget said:

Not getting anywhere with your writer fighter, David.

To be more specific then, his writing was historical and hugely influential

[Uncle George]

2 minutes ago, David Ridgus said:

To be more specific then, his writing was historical and hugely influential

Not Jean Giraudoux, I take it.

[neverforget]

5 minutes ago, David Ridgus said:

To be more specific then, his writing was historical and hugely influential

Merci..

[Fattyowls]

7 minutes ago, David Ridgus said:

his writing was historical

Fiction or non-fiction?

[David Ridgus]

22 minutes ago, Uncle George said:

Not Jean Giraudoux, I take it.

No, although again the physical resemblance is marked. (I think we may be getting into Robert Nivelle lookalike territory here)

16 minutes ago, Fattyowls said:

Fiction or non-fiction?

Non-fiction

[David Ridgus]

28 minutes ago, Uncle George said:

Not Jean Giraudoux, I take it.

On reflection I think this whole series could be on French writers. I had not heard of Charles Peguy, and although I did know Giraudoux's works I had no idea he had such a strong war record. As always with WIT, I learn all the time

49 minutes ago, Fattyowls said:

As long as nobody says we'll head them off at the pass. I hate that cliché. You could be the Royal County Massive as an alternative.

Would you accept "We'll head them off just outside Thatcham"?

[Knotty]

53 minutes ago, Uncle George said:

That’ll be the day!*

*(Overdue John Wayne reference.)

Thought that was a David Essex song/film, am I on the wrong thread

 

57 minutes ago, Fattyowls said:

the Royal County Massive as an alternative

Yep I will take that Pete, nice sound to it👍

As an aside on the photo thread has anyone got the ID of those bloody steps of Michelle’s?

Edited 9 March , 2023 by Knotty

[Uncle George]

Is he Marc Bloch?

[Fattyowls]

10 minutes ago, David Ridgus said:

Would you accept "We'll head them off just outside Thatcham"?

No.

[David Ridgus]

11 minutes ago, Uncle George said:

Is he Marc Bloch?

He is indeed UG, well done. I am almost disappointed, but only because I was enjoying finding out about these other folk.

Marc Bloch, founder of the Annales school of history, almost certainly the most influential historical movement of the 20th Century, as well as fighting all the way through the Great War, and being shot as a member of the Resistance in the Second. When I was at University it was the dominant force, and you questioned it at your peril. These days not so much but its influence is everywhere in the best historical writing. It is sometimes argued that the reverence in which he is held as an historian in France owes quite a bit to his astonishing bravery outside of Academia. Personally I think that is unkind - without Bloch, no Braudel, without Braudel the best history book of the century isn't written.

6 minutes ago, Fattyowls said:

No.

So its the interception part of the process you object to, rather than its location

Edited 9 March , 2023 by David Ridgus

[Uncle George]

Another writer here, and another ‘first’. Who is she ? ? ?

EDIT: image from here https://ksww1.ku.edu/kansans-of-the-great-war-era-peggy-hull/

Edited 10 March , 2023 by Uncle George

[neverforget]

I just got there with Bloch too. WW1 French historian killed Ww2 found him. 

Terrible end to his life. Aside from his acedemic achievements and contributions, what a remarkably brave man he was. 

[Fattyowls]

1 hour ago, David Ridgus said:

So its the interception part of the process you object to, rather than its location

No. I am with Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley) in rejecting the whole. Comic effect can be gained by interpolation of Royal Berkshire placenames into famous Western ideas, as in the shootout at the Old Windsor corral but I draw the line at anything to do with heading off and passes.

F. Owls

[neverforget]

3 minutes ago, Fattyowls said:

No. I am with Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley) in rejecting the whole. Comic effect can be gained by interpolation of Royal Berkshire placenames into famous Western ideas, as in the shootout at the Old Windsor corral but I draw the line at anything to do with heading off and passes.

F. Owls

Quite. We do have standards after all.