Church bells rung this morning – in celebration of the victory in Egypt. [1] The first time that I have heard them in over two years.
[1] Following the attack launched at El Alamein on 23 October 1942, the Eighth Army cleared Egypt by 11 November 1942; Tobruk, in Libya, was retaken on 12 November. Allied forces landed in Morocco and Algeria on 8 November, and by 12 November were close to the western Tunisian border. Final victory in North Africa, however, was not to come until mid-May 1943.
Well here we are 70 years on; and the area still in turm-oil.
Come along George, one comment a month is rubbish!
Flandall,
Sorry to report that this is the last diary entry for at least 4 years. Orwell didn’t keep a diary again until 1946 and it is mostly about the weather etc. although there are a handful of interesting entries.
I’m surprised they haven’t mentioned that here.
That’s seriously disappointing. Orwell could be very inciteful and a useful source of rumours, so it’s sad to hear he has nothing at all else to say on the war, especially as it’s turning in his timeframe.
Keeping a diary is a habit that even a professional writer will cycle in and out of.. It has been nice getting to know Mr. Blair, even in brief and incomplete glimpses…
Seventy-one years on from this diary entry we have an Orwellian scenario, a land where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others now threatening all out nuclear war.