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Why Did Britain Invade French Madagascar in World War II?

Why Did Britain Invade French Madagascar in World War II?
British forces were compelled to invade the island off the coast of East Africa amid fears of a Japanese invasion.
Here s What You Need to Know: Churchill called the campaign for Madagascar “our first large-scale amphibious operation since the Dardanelles.”
“The first I saw of Madagascar and the last after adventurous months ashore was the eerie color of the soil,” a British novelist turned security sergeant would write a decade later.
“It gave to the sky, the vegetation, and the people a strangeness, even a deathliness which still shadows my recollections of the island. For the soil and the dust which rose from it to cake our skins and clothes, our eyelids and nostrils was not brick-colored or terra cotta but the color of dried blood.” ....

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Book World: How did all these books get into my house? There's a method to what seems like madness.

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Book World: How did all these books get into my house? There s a method to what seems like madness.
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Jan. 6, 2021
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Even though I gave away or sold perhaps 150 boxes of books in 2020, the stunned amazement of anyone who wanders into my basement or attic apparently remains, to quote Sherlock Holmes, the one fixed point in a changing age. Admittedly, only a small number of people crossed my threshold during this time of coronavirus restrictions, but most never even bothered to ask, Have you read all these books? They just stood dumbfounded, though a few were overheard to murmur, I feel sorry for his poor wife or, more rarely, There, but for the grace of God, go I. My living room, to my delight if no one else s, can now pass as the ramshackle library of an impoverished London club circa 1895. More and more often, I settle into a sha ....

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