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Cyrano Jones ([personal profile] cyrano) wrote2006-03-11 05:07 pm

Show must go on

So thanks to a delightful and very helpful box office worker (who made me think of Raven nearly the entire time) I now have a ticket to see King John and a membership to the OSF for a year and a half. On the member waitlist for tickets to see Doctor Jekyll as well. Happy birthday to me, although it's a little pricey.

Looking for a historian to tell me about World War I, and working extra hours at work in hopes of making up lost ground. If I actually make it tonight (which I should) I will have my first week in many months of going to the gym three times which was the original plan.

[identity profile] miss-friday.livejournal.com 2006-03-12 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Looking for a historian to tell me about World War I

Barbara Tuckman is a good historian; she'll tell you lots of things. Try "A Distant Mirror."

Do you have a specific list of questions? My father, uncle, grandfather and brother-in-law are all real good with this sort of thing (alas, I am not). I could ask them on your behalf.

[identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com 2006-03-12 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
My main question is: "Was there an American military presence in the middle east/north Africa during The War, and if so which units?" So far as I can tell, the Expeditionary Force was in France and that's it. No indication even that they were in Britain.