fields of sacrifice is a 1964 documentary by donald brittain about canadian war dead .

the film visits former battlefields where over 100,000 canadian soldiers lost their lives in world war i and world war ii and examines canadian military cemeteries and memorials from hong kong to sicily .

fields of sacrifice

by september , they ' d be toiling in the tomatillo fields of jalisco .
$ 10 . 00 and all proceeds go to the fields of remembrance trust .
in flanders fields was first published in england ' s punch magazine in december 1915 . within months , this poem came to symbolize the sacrifice of all who were fighting in the first world war .
the producer is in charge of the fields . i ' m in charge of sales .
after a day in the fields , alejandrina castillo snacks on a corn chip .
if i kick out the kids , they just go work in other fields .
hellblade : senua’s sacrifice will now be releasing in 2017 . check out our video below for more information . . . .
child labor is common in the fields of southern sinaloa , where alejandrina worked the last three winters .
how the poppy became the symbol of sacrifice the red poppy flower is a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died in wwi . check out this story on urltoken urltoken
alejandrina ' s destination that july day was a stretch of open fields where a local farmer raised chile peppers .
lieutenant colonel john mccrae was the canadian army doctor who wrote the world famous poem in flanders fields .
today we’ve released a new track from the hellblade : senua’s sacrifice soundtrack . the track title is ‘deeper’ , composed and performed by andy laplegua . . . .
hellblade : senua’s sacrifice is out now for xbox one and is available digital - only from the xbox store ! as part of hellblade’s launch we . . . . . .
the fields of remembrance trust was established in 2012 to honour those who served and died for our nation during world war one .
henry mortensen : the first orc that aragorn is seen killing on the fields of pelennor is played by viggo mortensen ' s son .
our latest development diary explores how we’ve created the voices that haunt senua throughout her journey in hellblade : senua’s sacrifice . make sure to wear . . . . . .
fields of remembrance lapel pins commemorating the battle of chunuk bair are now available . 650 men died in this offensive for the heights of the gallipoli peninsula in august 1915 .
also know that great sacrifice has been a reality as well . while i may lose my lawn , rice farmers are signing up for a second year of reduced crops and similarly lost income .
w . c . fields stars as a lovable con man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif ( carol dempster ) .
this theme certainly doesn ' t just apply to the seductive world of acting ; this also rings true for many fields - in particular the world of science . success in the workplace does require determination , which in turn sometimes requires the forfeiting of activities in your private life . personally , i have missed weddings , parties and numerous social occasions in sacrifice of my career .
hi everyone , we’re happy to be sharing a new poster with you today and also reveal a new for the game : hellblade : senua’s sacrifice . . . . . . .
director of photography andrew lesnie caught most of his shots during the intense battle on the pelennor fields , by putting on polo armor , and wading into the thick of the action .
we cherish too , the poppy red that grows on fields where valor led , it seems to signal to the skies that blood of heroes never dies .
so when you see the green agricultural lands of the sacramento valley and those shallow flooded rice fields , know that water reductions have been made , far in advance of this drought .
tarkovsky ' s haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation . made as he was dying of cancer , the sacrifice is tarkovsky ' s personal statement , a profoundly moving , redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart - wrenching emotion .
asked about the role of child labor in the pepper fields , velazquez said :
honestly , i don ' t get involved . i leave it to the grower .
the day of the funeral was a beautiful spring day ; none of us wore overcoats . you know the haze that comes over the hills at wimereux . i felt so thankful that the poet of ' in flanders fields ' was lying out there in the bright sunshine in the open space he loved so well . . . . ( prescott . in flanders fields : the story of john mccrae , p . 129 )
running a short 70 minutes , the film was offered as part of a double feature or accompanied by the nfb’s haunting 38 - minute film on the war dead of the two world wars , fields of sacrifice . either way , it played throughout 1963 and 1964 on the nation’s screens before making its way to the non - theatrical circuit , where it continued to play in schools and community centres on 16 mm . it later enjoyed a second career on television and home video .
share this story on facebook , google + or twitter . read the first two instalments in this series , where tim maughan and the unknown fields group visits the chinese city of yiwu , the real home of christmas and explore the invisible shipping network that keeps the world running . this trip was organised and funded by the unknown fields division , a group of architects , academics and designers at the architectural association school of architecture in london .
what many know as flanders fields is a part of this same agricultural landscape of belgium . it would become part of the dreaded western front of world war i , where trench life , influenza and poison gas would take the lives of 8 , 000 men per day in the first month . hundreds of thousands would follow .
when told that a times reporter had seen children in his fields , he admitted that state inspectors had fined him $ 30 , 000 the year before for using child labor .
in the fields of chihuahua , she watched out for scorpions . in jalisco , she saw her pregnant aunt amalia keel over in a tomatillo field ; the aunt later gave birth to a stillborn baby .
big american retailers are vigilant about enforcing rules against child labor at farms that supply them directly . keeping child workers out of the fields at widely scattered small - and mid - size farms has proved much harder .
the hebrew word for incense offerings , qetoret , literally means “smoke , odor of sacrifice , incense . ” however , radak points out that the word qeturot means “connected” as it is etymologically related to the aramaic word qeter “to bind” and to the hebrew word qesher “to bind , ” “connection” or “knot . ”
sadly , our memory of such mammoth sacrifice and the freedom it earned grows dim , and our courage wanes with the next news cycle . but men like jack won ' t let us forget because to them the choices are simple . remember the past and those lessons learned will guide us in the future .
rice farmers have also adopted gps technology that allows them to precisely level their fields . the five - inch water depth is uniform across the field – not deeper at one end than the other .
for me , one of the captivating themes from la la land was the idea that commitment , drive and sacrifice can , rather unfortunately , have damaging results on relationships . this is of course one interpretation of the plot - particularly the melancholy ending - that in life you have to make choices , and those choices shape your future . sometimes positively , but sometimes negatively .
added braun , “smaller theatrical distributors may be frustrated , but the reality is that netflix reaches millions and that appeals to filmmakers and some will sacrifice theatrical to reach a very large audience . it depends on what your dream is , and how great the pressure is to guarantee a return of money to your investors . ”
in flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses , row on row , that mark our place ; and in the sky the larks , still bravely singing , fly scarce heard amid the guns below . we are the dead . short days ago we lived , felt dawn , saw sunset glow , loved , and were loved , and now we lie in flanders fields . take up our quarrel with the foe : to you from failing hands we throw the torch , be yours to hold it high . if ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep , though poppies grow in flanders fields
alejandrina castillo , 12 , picks chile peppers near teacapan , sinaloa . an estimated 100 , 000 children toil in mexican fields for pay . some work for farms that export produce to the u . s .
writing letters and poetry also allowed john mccrae to escape temporarily from the pressures of his administrative duties at the hospital . his last poem ,
the anxious dead
, echoed the theme of
in flanders fields
but was never as popular as the earlier poem .
constantinos complained that he had been singled out unfairly by state inspectors .
if i kick out the kids , they just go work in other fields . there ' s no steady enforcement ,
he said .
today , people continue to pay tribute to the poet of in flanders fields by visiting mccrae house , the limestone cottage in guelph , ontario where he was born . the house has been preserved as a museum . beside it are a memorial cenotaph and a garden of remembrance .
in his speech , prince william echoed the words of winston churchill , who in 1919 said of ypres : “a more sacred place for the british does not exist in the world . ” william added : “during the first world war britain and belgium stood shoulder to shoulder . one hundred years on , we still stand together , gathering as so many do every night , in remembrance of that sacrifice . ”
whether it is the nostalgic glimpse of the past in la la land , or the forward thinking progress of science , there is a reminder that in all fields dedication and commitment are key ingredients to success - and in order to accomplish this - sacrifices often have to be made .
the month before , human rights activists had toured farms in the region and counted hundreds of child pickers . embarrassed state officials vowed to impose fines on growers who employed children . but after the officials and activists left , children were back in the fields .
john mccrae was buried with full military honours in wimereux cemetery , just north of boulogne , not far from the fields of flanders . bonfire led the procession , mccrae ' s riding boots reversed in the stirrups . his death was met with great grief among his friends and contemporaries . a friend wrote of the funeral :
a kaleidoscopic portrait of josh dolgin of 18 short films which display his electrifying craft and sense of history . combining yiddish songs with funk , rap and everything in between , his tunes are densely layered tapestries of dizzying complexity . he collaborates with legendary trombonist fred wesley ( a key member of james brown ' s bands ) , klezmer hero david krakauer , and re - discovers pianist irving fields .
alejandrina and her family were part of a crew of nomadic farm laborers who spent part of the summer of 2013 in guanajuato , in the countryside southeast of leon .
the hebrew word for a burnt offering or sacrifice , qorban , is etymologically related to the word qarov “close , ” qiruv “to bring close” and qerovim “relatives , ” as they all share the same root qrb “to be close . ” sacrificial offering ( qorban ) meant to bring a person who brought it close ( qarov ) to god .
it is a terrible state of affairs , and i am going because i think every bachelor , especially if he has experience of war , ought to go . i am really rather afraid , but more afraid to stay at home with my conscience . ( prescott . in flanders fields : the story of john mccrae , p . 77 )
in flanders fields was first published in england ' s punch magazine in december 1915 . within months , this poem came to symbolize the sacrifices of all who were fighting in the first world war . today , the poem continues to be a part of remembrance day ceremonies in canada and other countries throughout the world .
but it was the testimony of the dead that particularly held the audience . one private , jack dillon , told those in the market square of the “sweet smell” of death . ypres’s notoriety , after all , was in great measure built not only on the ferocity of the fighting , and a victory won at great cost , but by the conditions in which it was fought . unprecedented rain and the churning of the clay fields had turned the mud to sludge so deep that men and horses drowned . there were more than 320 , 000 allied casualties . german losses are estimated to have been between 260 , 000 and 400 , 000 . the final act on ypres’s stage was the playing of the piper’s lament . it was a piece of music simply entitled the bloody fields of flanders .
the memories of the boys who went to world war one are fading . they can be as many as four generations away with no direct descendants . when we identify each white cross in a field of remembrance with a name we begin to truly honour their sacrifice . and when we know the stories of their young lives we begin to understand the loss felt by their families and communities . there are many wonderful resources to help tell their stories , and for researching a relative .
while in office , fox was criticized for the presence of children in the region ' s fields . when a times reporter and photographer visited the area on a sweltering day in july 2013 , there were 45 pickers at work in a pepper field about two miles from fox ' s hacienda .
legion magazine engages canadians in commemorating the effort , bravery and sacrifice of those who served and continue to serve in canada’s military . from the war of 1812 to modern armed forces missions around the world , legion magazine offers a blend of stories , photographs , graphics , maps and posters on canadian military history and heritage , veterans’ issues and the canadian armed forces . legion magazine is published six times a year in english with a french insert . legion magazine is published by canvet publications ltd .
more than 800 , 000 soldiers on both sides of the war died in the blood and mud of the ypres salient between 1914 and 1918 . many marched on the so - called menin road , on which the gate built in 1927 now stands , from ypres town to the front lines . still today , the remains of dozens of men are found every year in flanders fields , identified initially by the colouring and markings of the boots in which they died .
on may 2 , 1915 , mccrae’s friend , lieutenant alexis helmer , was killed in action and buried in a makeshift grave . wild poppies were already beginning to bloom between the crosses marking the many graves and he was inspired to write in flanders fields the next day .
wilhelm scream : - when a southron is knocked off an oliphant by legolas . - when an oliphant wrangler gets hit by a spear thrown by éomer , right before the collision of the two mûmakil during the battle of pelennor fields . - during the retreat from osgiliath , when faramir is leading his men in a frenzied charge back to minas tirith , a fell beast picks one of the soldiers off his horse .
clearing the fields of plants , fidel swung his machete wide and opened a gash at alejandrina ' s right ankle .
i yelled to my mom and she came running , and my brother wanted to run away , but she hit him ,
alejandrina recalled . she limped under a tree and pressed a soiled rag against the wound .
the battle of pelennor fields was filmed on a large field heavily populated with rabbits . the place had to be carefully inspected for rabbit holes , which were all filled , due to the danger they would pose if a horse were to step into one , which could cause a major pile - up , with injuries to horses and riders .
most of the lines legolas says in the extended edition scene of the paths of the dead are direct quotes from the book .
the house of the healing sequence was david wenham ' s first day of shooting .
in early may 1915 , a canadian doctor and poet , lieutenant colonel john mccrae , who recently lost a friend and a fellow lieutenant in the war witnessed the sight of bright red poppies flourishing in an unlikely place . the vision inspired him to write a poem called “in flanders fields , ” which became famous . the poem has been part of memorial ceremonies across the world ever since .
a field of remembrance is laid out in the same way ads the soldiers marched when they were alive , in straight rows . take a moment to reflect that each of the white crosses represents a life lost . with our fields toolkit , you ' ll find useful guides to follow , specifications for white crosses , how to order poppy and fern self adhesive stickers , and resene paint .
elsewhere , it persists . children work the fields throughout mexico ' s agricultural export regions . they pick tomatillos in baja california and michoacan and tomatoes in zacatecas and san luis potosi . they de - stem strawberries in baja california sur . they bag coffee beans and cut sugar cane in veracruz and chiapas .
a kitten has taken up with a poor ( child ) dying of muscular atrophy who cannot move . it stays with him all the time , and sleeps most of the day in his straw hat . tonight i saw the kitten curled up under the bedclothes . it seems as it were a gift of providence that the little creature should attach itself to the child who needs is most . ( prescott , in flanders fields : the story of john mccrae , p . 18 )
the return of the king contains 50 minutes of additional footage , in a blue sleeve . it contains an alan lee painting of the grey havens , and the white tree of gondor on the back of the sleeve .
unknown fields has an unusual plan for the stuff . “we are using this radioactive clay to make a series of ceramic vessels modelled on traditional ming vases , ” young explains , “each proportioned based on the amount of toxic waste produced by the rare earth minerals used in a particular tech gadget . ” the idea is to illustrate the impact our consumer goods have on the environment , even when that environment might be unseen and thousands of miles away .
the red poppy flower is a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died in wwi .
you can see the lake on google maps , and that hints at the scale . zoom in far enough and you can make out the dozens of pipes that line the shore . unknown fields’ liam young collected some samples of the waste and took it back to the uk to be tested . “the clay we collected from the toxic lake tested at around three times background radiation , ” he later tells me .
welcome to baotou , the largest industrial city in inner mongolia . i ' m here with a group of architects and designers called the unknown fields division , and this is the final stop on a three - week - long journey up the global supply chain , tracing back the route consumer goods take from china to our shops and homes , via container ships and factories .
the general impression in my mind is of a nightmare . we have been in the most bitter of fights . for seventeen days and seventeen nights none of us have had our clothes off , nor our boots even , except occasionally . in all that time while i was awake , gunfire and rifle fire never ceased for sixty seconds . . . . . and behind it all was the constant background of the sights of the dead , the wounded , the maimed , and a terrible anxiety lest the line should give way . ( prescott . in flanders fields : the story of john mccrae , p . 98 )
minas tirith and the surrounding area are actually a combination of several locations . the seventh tier was a backlot set at three foot six studios . the other streets were a maze - like set built at the same rock quarry where the hornburg ( helm ' s deep ) was shot . pelennor fields was a large open field in twizel . osgiliath was another backlot set . the full cities of osgiliath and minas tirith were built as models . the surrounding mountain ranges were a digital composite of photographs taken of several mountain ranges in new zealand .
although mccrae worked hard at his university teaching and at his increasingly busy practice , the advantage of working in a university was that he could take time off . he holidayed at various times in england , france and europe . . . at times he worked his passage to europe as ship ' s surgeon ; he enjoyed ships and the sea . these were the compensations of a bachelor ' s life . ( prescott , in flanders fields : the story of john mccrae , p . 70 )
when filming the scene
the sacrifice of faramir
david wenham ' s horse became excited and ran away with him . a professional rider had to chase the horse and stop it . david was not a rider , and had not been taught what to do in such a situation , to pull the rein and force the horse to turn too sharply . horses cannot run in a tight circle , and this would have stopped the horse . thankfully , david was not harmed . ( the extras in the extended edition dvd has the full story . )
it ' s sad to see a little kid working in the fields ,
he said .
i do tell the growers that these kids should be in school . and they tell me sometimes , ' hey , emilio , we tell them , but their parents want them to work , and the kids sometimes want to work . '
though i remembered him as this devil - may - care rake with a swath of luxurious hair , costner’s robin is both poorly styled and wildly inconsistent as a character , not just because of costner’s barely existent british accent , but because robin apparently both achieves and loses adult sensibilities over the course of the film . he’s willing to sacrifice his hand to save a friend at the beginning of the movie , but , once returned to england , he acts like a petulant child , teasing his new friend azeem about love . and though it seems noble that he eventually decides to take up with a band of outlaws and overthrow the corrupt sheriff , the film doesn’t actually explain why he’d do that , other than to imply that it was just the right thing to do .
the flowers seemed to have no link to jack ' s wars . they were poppies , a red wildflower of europe , botanically known as papaver rhoeas . fondly called corn poppies , they thrive in wheat fields and waysides from ireland to the mediterranean . they would obtain their name from the grains once collectively known as
korn
long before american corn ( zea maize ) was discovered in the new world .
maj . john mccrae , a canadian battlefield doctor , wrote the poem
in flanders fields
during the conflict after burying a good friend . in 1918 , two days before the armistice was signed , moina michael , working at the ymca overseas war secretaries headquarters , began wearing a little red silk poppy on her lapel to
keep faith with all who died .
the fellowship of the ring contains 30 minutes of additional footage , in a green sleeve . it contains an alan lee painting of the fellowship entering moria , and the moria gate on the back of the sleeve .
wooden crosses are placed on the last day of the tower of london ' s ' blood swept lands and seas of red ' poppy installation in the tower of london in london , britain , 11 november 2014 .
in the french canadian victory bond poster titled , “pour que la terre leur soit légère” souscrivons à l’emprunt de la victoire ( the english version reads , “if ye break faith—we shall not sleep” buy victory bonds ) , the poppy dominates the bottom of the design and the flower is front and centre again in the print depicting the poem in flanders fields by lieutenant - colonel john mccrae . there , only the poppies are coloured while the rest of the composition is inked in sepia . coincidentally , all three of these works were created in 1918 , the last year of the war and the year mccrae died .
of the three major battles in ypres , however , it is the third and final , whose centenary will pass in the early hours of monday , that bears the greatest infamy . “i died in hell – they called it passchendaele , ” the soldier and poet siegfried sassoon wrote of the carnage that raged from 31 july until 10 november 1917 . perhaps the first world war battle that is today most sharp in the collective british consciousness is the somme , but at the time it was this battle , and this place , that was synonymous with the hopelessness and horror of what was playing out on foreign fields .
part 2 of our combat focused episodes . see new in - development footage of senua in action . . .
clockwise from top left : alejandrina castillo lies with her 8 - week - old cousin in the family ' s temporary home in teacapan , sinaloa . holding the shard of a broken mirror , alejandrina applies lip gloss before she goes shopping in teacapan , a break from working in the fields . after a day picking tomatillos , she and cousin pedro vasquez try to knock a mango from a tree behind their family ' s temporary home in arandas , jalisco .
the times watched her and dozens of other children harvest chile peppers at a mid - size farm in teacapan , south of the resort city of mazatlan , in december 2013 .
in the extended cut of the film , the song during the houses of healing sequence is sung by liv tyler .
and there’s no better place to understand china’s true sacrifice than the shores of baotou toxic lake . apparently created by damming a river and flooding what was once farm land , the lake is a “tailings pond” : a dumping ground for waste byproducts . it takes just 20 minutes to reach the lake by car from the centre of the city , passing through abandoned countryside dominated by the industrial architecture on the horizon . earlier reports claim the lake is guarded by the military , but we see no sign . we pass a shack that was presumably a guard hut at one point but it’s abandoned now ; whoever was here left in a hurry , leaving their bedding , cooking stove , and instant noodle packets behind when they did .
jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
. ( the latter gets a mention in the article ‘north of hollywood’ for its portrait of late writer malcolm lowry . )
this is a 1919 photo of sgt . alvin york of the u . s . army in an unknown location . york received the medal of honor for killing 25 germans , capturing 132 prisoners and putting 35 machine gun nests out of commission .
march 1st , 2013 marked the 117th year anniversary of the battle of adwa and historian ayele bekerie shares an essay on the historic victory . ( photo : mountains of adwa / file )
for the extended edition dvd , the scene in which pippin is looking for merry after the battle on pelennor fields , was digitally altered so that it appears to be night , instead of day . according to peter jackson on the commentary track , this was done to make it appear that pippin has been looking for several hours , instead of several minutes , underlining the friendship between the two hobbits . in the original edit , because it appeared that pippin had only been looking for a few minutes , his reaction to finding merry seems like he ' s overreacting .
he felt he should have made greater sacrifices , and insisted on living in a tent through the year , like his comrades at the front , rather than in the officers ' huts . when this affected his health in mid - winter he had to be ordered into warmer surroundings . to many he gave the impression that he felt he should still be with his old artillery brigade . after the battle of ypres he was never again the optimistic man with the infectious smile . ( prescott . in flanders fields : the story of john mccrae , p . 110 )
the battle of passchendaele , the third battle of ypres and one of the most brutal conflicts of the first world war , took place between 31 july and 10 november 1917 in west flanders , belgium . more than half a million combatants lost their lives
dozens of pipes line the shore , churning out a torrent of thick , black , chemical waste from the refineries that surround the lake . the smell of sulphur and the roar of the pipes invades my senses . it feels like hell on earth .
in our final development diary of 2015 we show some of the work that is going into creating hellblade’s atmosphere : . . .
the red color is not a reflection of the color of blood , nor is it a symbol of death or a sign of support for war , according to the royal british legion , a u . k . charity for military officers and their families .
during world war i , much of the fighting took place in western europe . the belgium flanders , the northernmost point of the western front during the first world war , became one of the most devastated regions in the battlefield . the war turned the beautiful countryside into a field of mud where nothing could grow . but poppy flowers sprouted on the land of thousands of dead men .
he attended the university of toronto medical school . he liked to write and some of his poems and short stories were published in a variety of magazines . he completed his degree in 1898 .
a blistering satire of italy in the 1970s , the seduction of mimi takes aim at a corrupt government , compromised labor leaders and the neanderthal sexual politics of men in power , with uproarious results .
the theatrical edition is the definitive version of the movie & it’s mush better in terms of pacing and tone than the extended cut .
memorial day , originally called decoration day , is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the united states of america . over two dozen cities and towns claim to be the birthplace of memorial day . while waterloo n . y . was officially declared the birthplace of memorial day by president lyndon johnson in may 1966 , it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day .
in part because of the poem ' s popularity , the poppy was adopted as the flower of remembrance for the war dead of britain , france , the united states , canada and other commonwealth countries .
the entire western front became an enormous killing ground , scarred by bomb craters , trenches and miles of barbed wire . not a blade of grass or a green leaf could be found for miles . the mud was legendary . at the end of the battles tens of thousands on both sides would be buried beneath the cold ground of flanders .
adwa reminds the shoan nobility to let freedom ring from northern highlands to the rift valleys , the river basins , the plain lush fields of arussi and the salty danakil depressions . adwa presents a unique opportunity to reconfigure the empire - state . unfortunately , absolutism and imperial glory overshadowed and undermined the emancipatory route suggested by the historic event of adwa . adwa presses on the monarchy to modernize and to let the people involve in the political process through constitutional means . unfortunately , the leaders resisted internal reform or introduced ineffective and nominal elements of modernity . absolute monarchy , imitative and nominal modernization and detached and non - transformative tradition were pursued and , to this date , insist on clinging to the status quo . the status quo is the cause of immense poverty and disenfranchisement for the vast majority of the people in the country .
in 1917 the british home front faced a test of endurance and its most obvious expression throughout the year was the food question . the strategic importance of food production in 1917 was accompanied by the clamour of exhortati…
the two towers contains 42 minutes of additional footage , in a red sleeve . it contains an alan lee painting of gandalf ' s return , and a rohirrim sun symbol on the back of the sleeve .
during one of the shots filming the charge of the rohirrim , a horse rider fell off the back of his horse . all the horses that came behind him miraculously managed to either miss or avoid him .
on the extended dvd extras , peter jackson explains that the head of gothmog , the leader of the orcs during the siege of gondor , was partly derived from the head of joseph merrick , also known as
the elephant man
. also of influence , was the alien leader from jackson ' s earlier film bad taste ( 1987 ) .
in the trenches , john mccrae tended hundreds of wounded soldiers every day . he was surrounded by the dead and the dying . in a letter to his mother , he wrote of the battle of ypres .
dame helen mirren started with a reading of in flanders fields , by the canadian poet lt col john mccrae , who served as a surgeon during the second battle of ypres . she continued to narrate through the evening as images of those who fought were projected across the clock tower of the cloth hall , standing high behind the stage . among those , harry patch , known as the last tommy , who died in 2009 , aged 111 , spoke down from the tower to the crowds . “passchendaele when i knew it was flat” , he said in a recording . “everything was blown to pieces” . patch told of finding “a cornishman” on the battlefields ripped to shreds by shrapnel who begged to be shot . thirty seconds later , without a pistol being drawn , the man died . the man had said one word , said patch : “mother” .
regardless of the exact date or location of its origins , one thing is clear – memorial day was borne out of the civil war and a desire to honor our dead . it was officially proclaimed on 5 may 1868 by general john logan , national commander of the grand army of the republic , in his general order no . 11 . “the 30th of may , 1868 , is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers , or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion , and whose bodies now lie in almost every city , village and hamlet churchyard in the land , ” he proclaimed . the date of decoration day , as he called it , was chosen because it wasn’t the anniversary of any particular battle .
in the crowd shot of the scene of aragorn ' s ascension you can see the blue banner with the silver swan of dol amroth being waved . the prince of dol amroth , imrahil , isn ' t a major character in the story , but is the one who discovers that eowyn is still alive after her slaying of the witch - king .
poppies fall through the interior of the menin gate during the last post ceremony during the centenary commemorations of passchendaele . photograph : benoit doppange / epa
one hundred thousand people lined the streets of wellington for the world premiere . that ' s roughly a quarter of the city ' s population .
the last spoken line of the movie ,
well , i ' m back .
, is also the last line of the book .
one of the landmarks of 1960 ' s world cinema in a new transfer that restores shadows of forgotten ancestors in all the extravagant color , vivid tragedy , and lucid anthropological detail that stunned audiences when it first premiered .
this documentary chronicles the evolution of eastern spirituality in america from its popularization in the counterculture of the 1960s to its widespread infusion into every aspect of our contemporary society . discusses its role in our new understandings of social inequities , western faith practices , cutting - edge medicine and science , and more .
orlando bloom ' s big heroic scene atop the mûmak was shot in just one day . bloom was filmed on top of a pile of sandbags .
you may not have heard of baotou , but the mines and factories here help to keep our modern lives ticking . it is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of “rare earth” minerals . these elements can be found in everything from magnets in wind turbines and electric car motors , to the electronic guts of smartphones and flatscreen tvs . in 2009 china produced 95 % of the world ' s supply of these elements , and it ' s estimated that the bayan obo mines just north of baotou contain 70 % of the world ' s reserves . but , as we would discover , at what cost ?
the final portrait in a series on the lives of dictators by alexander sokurov , the sun is a re - imagining of emperor hirohito ' s final days in power during the waning days of wwii . hirohito wanders through his palace in a child - like state of denial . but reality soon intrudes as american soldiers overrun his manicured gardens and visions of hiroshima invade his dreams . no longer a god among men , hirohito is forced accept the terms of the occupation and , even more dramatically , the renunciation of his divinity .
the amount of money that new line cinema reclaimed in tax breaks on the three
the lord of the rings
films was ten times more than the annual budget of the new zealand film commission , which funds local filmmaking .
sir ian mckellen ' s first day of shooting on the trilogy was gandalf ' s first scene , arriving in hobbiton . his second day of shooting was gandalf ' s final scene of the film , at the gray havens .
while john gilbert was editing the lord of the rings : the fellowship of the ring ( 2001 ) and michael horton was editing the lord of the rings : the two towers ( 2002 ) , jamie selkirk was cutting the final chapter . from the start , peter jackson wanted his longtime associate selkirk on the lord of the rings : the return of the king ( 2003 ) , as he knew selkirk would stay focused on the climax of the entire saga .
sons of ben : the movie tells the story of a major league soccer supporters club’s quest to bring an mls team to their city , and how that journey changed the group’s members as well as the face of a struggling community .
each of the cast members was given a gift on their last day of shooting , usually a prop that was significant to their roles . miranda otto received one of eowyn ' s dresses and her sword , liv tyler received arwen ' s
dying dress
, orlando bloom got one of legolas ' bows .
when aragorn holds his speech to the troops he says
a day may come when the courage of men fails , when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship , but it is not this day . an hour of wolves and shattered shields , when the age of men comes crashing down !
this is a very close paraphrase to 45th stanza of the old norse poem voluspå which describes ragnarok . the original stanza goes about like this :
brother shall strike brother and both fall , parents shall defile their kin ; evil be on earth , an age of adultery , axe time , sword time , of splintered shields , a wind - age , a wolf - age till the world caves in ; no man will spare another .
the same poem is also the source of several of the names of the dwarves in the world of tolkien .
enjoy the story of the creation of the north - west mounted police ( eventual rcmp ) in western canada in 1873 as told by filmmaker extraordinaire colin low .
poppies are released from the menin gate at the end of the wreath laying ceremony during commemorations marking the centenary of passchendale . photograph : leon neal / getty images
( ltor ) queen mathilde of belgium , king philippe of belgium and west - flanders province governor carl decaluw . photograph : nicolas maeterlinck / afp / getty images
many of the peppers destined for the u . s . in summer come from guanajuato , some from farms near the ranch of former mexican president vicente fox .
over the past few months we’ve been hard at work in the prototyping phase of hellblade . this episode of our development diary series . . . . . .
our 2nd development diary focuses on some of the early art inspiration of the team , in particular a reference gathering trip to the . . . . . .
for the lighting of the beacons sequence , one beacon was helicoptered up to the top of a mountain and then lit . the rest were all computer generated .
john rhys - davies ( gimli ) originally auditioned for the role of denethor .
also on the day of the premiere , new zealand ' s two major television networks both suspended regular broadcasts to give over to live coverage of the event .
world war i museum lures visitors marking 100th anniversary of u . s . entry
he returned to his studies in toronto in 1893 and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1894 . he then attended the university of toronto medical school .
the film was originally going to end with a voice - over epilogue by galadriel ( cate blanchett ) , detailing the fate of the fellowship of the ring , after the events of the movie . scenes showing gimli and legolas for this purpose had been shot , but were not used in any version of the finished movie .
in april 1915 , john mccrae was in the trenches near ypres , belgium , in the area traditionally called flanders . some of the heaviest fighting of the first world war took place there during what was known as the second battle of ypres .
in every installment of the trilogy , one character says the subtitle of the film . in fellowship during the council scene elrond refers to the nine as the
fellowship of the ring
; in the two towers it ' s saruman who says
the two towers
during a voiceover ; and finally in this film , gandalf tells the steward of gondor that he cannot deny the return of the king .
ermelinda , a stout woman with weary eyes , pulled her children out of school and headed north , joining thousands of other mixtec indians on the chile pepper trail .
dominic matthews i had the pleasure of presenting a developer session at egx yesterday , the full video of which is below . if you’re . . . . . .
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the scene on the extended edition dvd version of the
corsairs of umbar
being attacked by the army of the dead , includes several cameos . peter jackson is the one hit by legolas ' arrow . ( in the commentary , he states that he performed six or seven takes of the hit , without any padding . ) co - producer rick porras is seen with a
look of horror
as the ghostly hoard attacks at the end of the scene . also in the scene , are weta supervisor richard taylor , prosthetics supervisor gino acevedo , and director of photography andrew lesnie .
john rhys - davies provided the voice of treebeard ( uncredited for this movie , but credited for the lord of the rings : the two towers ( 2002 ) ) .
when frodo is writing the book , the top of the page notes that sam was elected mayor of hobbiton , as told in the novel ' s
appendices
.
extraordinary and powerful
( roger ebert ) . in the state of judea in southern africa , violence , poverty and sectarianism are endemic . as civil war reaches new heights , a divine child is born to a lowly couple . the critically acclaimed son of man is a powerful retelling of the life of christ set in contemporary south africa .
shelob ' s shriek is the combination of several elements , including the sounds of a plastic alien toy , steam hisses ( inspired by an incident where an alligator hissed at peter jackson ' s daughter katie jackson ) , and the shriek of a tasmanian devil .
it broke another record , by winning all the oscars for which it was nominated ( eleven out of eleven ) . the previous record was nine out of nine by the last emperor ( 1987 ) , and nine out of nine by gigi ( 1958 ) .
donald brittain is under - represented in the pantheon of canadian cultural history . his astonishing understanding of presentation within this film and all of his other efforts , especially of the sublime expression of what canadians fought for and who canadians are and what we believe in is remarkably unparalleled . to see the post - war joy on the faces of the french on their beaches and the solemn understanding of the dutch children recognising their freedom is fantastic and without affectation or calculation . we live in a very special country populated by brave , strong , and reasonable people , and should we never forget that fact and that history .


assignment in brittany is a 1943 war film directed by jack conway and starring french actor jean-pierre aumont and swedish actress signe hasso , both in their american film debuts .

also starring was american actress susan peters , who in 1942 had been an academy award nominee for her performance in random harvest .

the film was adapted from a novel by helen macinnes which was serialized in the saturday evening post from may 2 to june 20 , 1942 .

when mgm bought the screen rights in february 1942 , the novel was titled " cross channel " .

the working title of this film was " fire in the night " .

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assignment in brittany by helen macinnes ~ 1942 . this edition : little , brown & co . , 1942 . hardcover . 373 pages .
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engrossing and enjoyable spy story about a british spy in nazi - occupied brittany .
the queen of spy writers returns in a stunning series collecting all of her greatest works ! titan kicks off with assignment in brittany ; the gripping tale of an undercover operative deep in nazi - occupied france .
jean - pierre aumont ( day for night ) made his u . s . movie debut playing a french resistance fighter who ' s a dead ringer for a nazi official in assignment in brittany ( 1943 ) .
jean - pierre aumont ( day for night ) made his u . s . movie debut playing a french resistance fighter who ' s a dead ringer for a nazi official in assignment in brittany ( 1943 ) . >
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the first scenes of jumping into brittany were used as training for parajumpers in the military . great story !
read this book whilst visiting brittany , really enjoyed the story line , a real page turner .
above suspicion was the first , and published in 1941 in the opening moves of what was to become the prolonged agony of the second great war , its urgent and foreboding tone rocketed it to bestseller heights . macinnes followed her first novel by another even more topically urgent and dark , assignment in brittany , in 1942 .
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[ … ] i can think of . we have undercover missions and secret liasons , and a french village that recalled assignment in brittany . the horror and tragedy of the war are still present , but i guess the figures involved just seemed [ … ]
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i just picked up assignment in brittany at a booksale , however , so i know that i’ve never read it before . it’s a lovely jacketed hardcover , not a book club edition but the real deal from 1942 . according to the jacket biography this was only her second book .
this is a good story in a nice setting its nice to read a good old fashioned thriller before technology and drugs were involved . i read it onholiday in brittany and really enjoyed it
another review claimed that the book was given to american soldiers being sent to france later in the war . i have no idea whether or not that’s true , but if it is it speaks for the resonance and accuracy of the novel . assignment in brittany was also apparently made into a movie in 1943 . hopefully i’ll be able to watch it either through netflix or tcm .
the action continues in her second novel , assignment in brittany . the unlikely plot this time involves one martin hearn , who looks so much like an injured french soldier named bertrand corlay that military intelligence decides to have hearn impersonate corlay , and send him back to corlay’s home . corlay lives in an area of nazi - occupied france , and it would be quite a coup to have a british agent live in the area and report on nazi activities .
assignment in brittany . ( 1942 ) . helen macinnes . * * * . macinnes was a very popular writer of spy novels – up there with ambler and greene in her day . her novels tended to be low - key , but well plotted . in this adventure , martin hearnes , a member of one of our intelligence groups , takes on the responsibility of heading off to france to learn more about what is going on in brittany . he has a cover : a man who looks exactly like him has just been rescued after a battle with the axis forces . that man is
i so agree with darlynne about the experience of reading old books that were written during the time they were set . assignment in brittany was published in 1942 ; for those first readers it was a contemporary thriller , not a recreation of an earlier era . it’s hard to imagine how people must have felt , reading books like this when the world was still at war and the future so uncertain .
i have read above suspicion numerous times through the years , but assignment in brittany was new to me , and i was pleased at how engaging both of these were , even though in the first i knew the plot inside and out , and the second i guessed at rather successfully all of the way through , except for the rather heartrending ( but ultimately optimistic ) twist at the very end .
martin hearne , british intelligence agent , finds himself in nazi - occupied brittany , posing as bertrand corlay , with the frenchman ' s life reduced to headings in his memory . this is a story of treachery and intrigue .
i am a huge fan of helen macinnes . / assignment in brittany / is one of her early works set during wwii . one thing i think macinnes excels at is writing from the male perspective . add in a tense espionage mission , a
tale of martin guerre
case of assumed identity , and love and you have a story with real stakes . the uncertain ending just makes it especially poignant . highly recommend !
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i have been re - reading helen macinnes novels , which were beach - reading staples as a teenager . her work holds up very well , considering the significant changes since she wrote . assignment in brittany was her second novel , set during world war ii and published in 1942 - - very much of - the - moment in her day . she captures beautifully the isolation hearne feels as he hides in occupied france and figures out what he can and cannot accomplish . the romance is a little predictable by modern standards , and
like susan , i read macinnes way back in the ’60s and ’70s . i know i read ‘assignment in brittany’ , but nothing stuck ! i do have fond memories of her first–‘above suspicion’ . my favorite was ‘the venetian affair’ ( which was made into a mediocre movie starring robert vaughn ( fresh from his man from uncle gig ) and felecia farr ) . she did several non - spy things in the late ’40s which are enjoyable–‘friends and lovers’ is a charming romance and ‘rest and be thankful’ is set in the american west .
to prepare for a fiction class i recently taught , i re - read assignment in brittany which i had read back in the ' 70s . it was , as then , a wonderful read : good , old fashioned espionage . it says a great deal about a book when the major spy organizations in the uk made this book required reading for their agents . macinnes ' husband was in mi6 , and her book was so well done that the government suspected her husband of revealing classified information to helen . he had not ( tom clancy had the same exper
review taken from my blog , headsfilmreviews dot com helen macinnes was a remarkable woman . she was a scots presbyterian young lady of glasgow ( my mother ' s stomping grounds ) , degreed in french and german , a librarian , a classic german literature translator , a european traveler , an amateur actress and a wife of an mi6 british intelligence agent . she has a number of espionage thrillers to her name , and her second novel , assignment in brittany , reads as though she had been fully immersed in breton cu
i like it , though the story is a bit far fetch setting at the time before the battle of britain , the british forces could hardly be in a position tosend commando raid to raid brittany . the story would be more creditable if it was set in 1942 - 43 .
macinnes knew spy craft very well , and if you were sharp you picked up some good observational advice . like how one guy was a bit too liberal with the use of cooking oil while everyone else in occupied france is scraping by and using as little as possible . that clue , combined with a few others , show that the cook might be in the pay of the enemy . assignment in brittany was full of practical little observations of that sort , which made it a useful training tool for men heading behind the lines . these are the details that shine .
france may have signed an armistice with germany , but the british are still very interested in any suspicious german activity in the region of brittany . if the nazis are able to set up base along the coast here than things could get very bad for england . the intelligence office needs men to act as eyes , and hearne is the perfect choice . he has long been interested in brittany and its people because of his own cornish descent , and even studied for a year at the unversity in rennes before the war . in appearances he is a doppelganger to corlay , and can mimic the man’s breton accent perfectly .
during the war a french officer ( jean - pierre aumont ) is assigned by the british to impersonate a lookalike who is in their custody so that he can go live with his mother ( marvellous margaret wycherly ) in his village in brittany in order to find the hiding place of nazi submarines . typical wartime propaganda marred by the romantic sub - plot as he romances susan peters while tackling nazis in their usual villainous mode . pretty dull .
fascinating account of an english spy in brittany during wwii . the attention to detail necessary to pull off impersonating a known resident of the town is astounding . could this really happen ? i don ' t know , but it was a page turner .
oh , so retro ! these helen macinnes thrillers were everywhere when i was a teenager — she might even be comparable to the lee child of the era , which says a lot about cultural changes in the last 50 years . i never read them because they moved pretty slowly and because the proportion of romance to action was low for the teenage me . but assignment in brittany was a laundry - room acquisition and it fit the bill perfectly when i was laid low by a migraine . ( that’s the good kind of illness , when you feel too sick to do anything but lie in bed and read ! )
he stared at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist . three hours ago he had stood on english soil . three hours ago he had been martin hearne , british intelligence agent . now he was in nazi - occupied brittany , posing as bertrand corlay , with the frenchman’s life reduced to headings in his memory .
of course helen macinnes was a moonlighting librarian , married to an academic , so she would consider books an index to character . i knew that her husband was the columbia university classicist gilbert highet , but i did not know until i checked wikipedia that he had been in mi6 . nor that assignment in brittany “was required reading for allied intelligence agents who were being sent to work with the french resistance against the nazis . ” actually now that i think of it , macinnes ‘ books seem to cover a lot of the same territory as alan furst’s — but she’s earnestly informative , while he’s performing all those smoky , romantic riffs on the same themes .
helen macinnes was a scottish - american author of espionage novels . she graduated from the university of glasgow in scotland in 1928 with a degree in french and german . a librarian , she married professor gilbert highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to new york in 1937 so he could teach classics at columbia university . she wrote her first novel , above suspicion , in 1939 . she wrote many bestselling suspense novels and became an american citizen in 1951 .
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helen macinnes was a scottish - american author of espionage novels . she graduated from the university of glasgow in scotland in 1928 with a degree in french and german . a librarian , she married professor gilbert highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to new york in 1937 so he could teach classics at columbia university . she wrote her first novel , above suspicion , in 1939 . she wrote many bestsell
to prepare for a fiction class i recently taught , i re - read assignment in brittany which i had read back in the ' 70s . it was , as then , a wonderful read : good , old fashioned espionage . it says a great deal about a book when the major spy organizations in the uk made this book required reading for their agents . macinnes ' husband was in mi6 , and her book was so well done that the government suspected her husband of revealing classified information to helen . he had not ( tom clancy had the same experience after his book the hunt for red october was published . he was called before a congressional committee to reveal how he got his submarine information . his reply :
i went to the public library .
) the characters are well drawn and the situations very realistic . the book is so well written that there is tension / suspense on nearly every page . macinnes will always have a special place in my pantheon of favorite writers . apparently i am not alone in my love of her books . in 2013 all were reissued .
i have been reading an old musty edition of this book , which i borrowed from a friend because it appears to be out of print . it is a spy story in which the main character impersonates a frenchman , whom he resembles , and takes up residence at his home in brittany . the frenchman ' s mother is shortsighted and much is made of this - - unncessarily , in my view . i am also shortsighted and i am absolutely sure that very little of the information we use to recognise people is visual . many great stories in
one of the best books about an undercover agent in wwii . . . a great story ; written while ww ii was ongoing in europe .
i am headed to brittany in may . so the title had me from the get go . i loved reading about the old towns and kept my map handy . unfortunately of course the smaller villages are imaginary . but i mean to track down what i can . and the history of the breton language is interesting . a good old fashioned ww2 intrigue .
an engishman who bears a uncanny resemblance to a frenchman wounded in battle travels to the man ' s small village in brittany and impersonates him in order to gain information about french resources and enemy plans . of course , there are surprises along the way . a bit too long , but engaging , and better than my other macinnes read . my ancient copy was printed during the war , and the inside of the dust jacket prommotes other great works at similarly reduced prices : the world ' s great speeches , practi
. french screen star pierre aumont made his american acting debut in this film , as did swedish actress signe hasso . like the character he plays in
he stared at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist . three hours ago he had stood on english soil . three hours ago he had been martin hearne , british intelligence agent . now he was in nazi - occupied brittany , posing as bertrand corlay . hearne looked down at the faded uniform which had been corlays , felt for the papers in the inside pocket . he was ready . from now on he was one step away from death . . .
while it seemed to get off to a rather slow start , it quickly picked up the pace and became a well - written spy - yarn and filled with rich images and suspense . the plot follows a british agent , our hero hearne , who is discovered to be the spitting image of a guy who had been picked up wounded in a battle with axis forces , one bertrand corlay . this fellow corlay , a frenchman from brittany , will spend the rest of the war in the hospital . here is an opportunity to send hearne in his place . hearne learns him well , his language nuances , his town , the people there , what they do and who they are . hearne learns corlay’s business , and even had a cosmetic birthmark applied , which comes in handy later . he is going to drop in by parachute , take up the role of corlay , and find out all info about the state of things in brittany , and report back regularly . after all , the war effort includes a coming invasion almost two years away , so any kind of intel about the nazis is vital intel , especially in this area where a future invasion might occur .
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in the town for which the movie is named , sheriff shaw . . .
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a list of agents and collaborators , hidden by the nazis in an austrian lake in 1945 , is sought after by various interested parties during the cold war .
each book is rated in its own context , not in comparison to the entire range of literature , which would , of course , be an impossible task .
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great atmosphere , tight storyline . edge of seat narrative , with romance thrown in too
at west point , 1857 , in the conceit of wally kline and . . .
father barry ( karl malden ) with a fiery sermon in the hold . . .
an engishman who bears a uncanny resemblance to a frenchman wounded in battle travels to the man ' s small village in brittany and impersonates him in order to gain information about french resources and enemy plans . of course , there are surprises along the way . a bit too long , but engaging , and better than my other macinnes read . my ancient copy was printed during the war , and the inside of the dust jacket prommotes other great works at similarly reduced prices : the world ' s great speeches , practical outline of mechanial trades for home study , lillian eichler ' s new book of etiquette , etc .
i just got the book in my hot little hands yesterday and i t . . .
complicated ww ii espionage yarn about a plan by the french underground to plant nazi leader look - alike aumont among the huns to get vital information regarding a secret u - boat base off the coast of brittany . usual ww ii film , with touches of nazi terror . this movie represented the first u . s . starring exposure for aumont and hasso .
a baptism - by - fire assignment if there ever was one , life on the syria desk has already left its share of bumps and bruises . at any time , the team is constantly churning out informational briefs , action memos , meeting read - outs , public affairs talking points , responses to congressional inquiries , and more , about the ever - changing security environment in syria and along its borders . the sheer amount of information which passes through my inbox each day is staggering – and i’m not even privy to all of the classified systems .
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even though my 1967 dell paperback copy calls this book a
haunting novel of romance and suspense
on its front cover , it is most definitely a dyed - in - the - wool spy novel . because the copy was given to me in a box of books , i persevered and read the entire 336 pages . with the book written in 1942 , i thought it was interesting that ms . macinnes pointed out in her introduction in the reprint of the book that after wwii , she personally met veterans who tried to track down the places described in the
i read this book a year or so ago in my book club and loved . . .
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her first , above suspicion , made its appearance in 1941 . in this , the spousal and amateur - spy team of richard and frances myles are about to go on vacation when the british government politely asks the couple if they would participate in a wee bit of espionage along the way .
martin hearne is parachuted into brittany , into the very forefront of the nazi occupation , in the guise of his french body double , bertrand corlay . many surprises await hearne , not least of which is the discovery that his predecessor was less than forthcoming about some of his own activities before his evacuation to england via the dunkirk debacle . for instance , his pre - marital arrangement with the neighbouring farmer’s daughter , anne , and his estrangement from his invalid mother , who keeps strictly to her own rooms in the shared household . who is beautiful and passionately forthcoming elise ? why do the nazi occupiers greet “bertrand corlay” with warm enthusiasm , while his fellow villagers hiss in cold disgust ?
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macinnes uses a pace that one finds in older novels , slowly building up the tension , concentrating less on action in the beginning and more on subtle details of darkness . you can feel the nazis slowly constricting not just the myles , but the societies in which they operate . writing in 1940 ( the book was published in 1941 ) , macinness rails against nazi ideology and cultures which either attempt to assimilate or feel that they can “handle” the interlopers . those cultures are about to be destroyed .
it begins in media res with martin hearne about to parachute into occupied france . meticulously he mentally reviews the situation : his miraculous resemblance to an injured frenchman brought to england after dunkirk , his superior checking and rechecking the man’s background all the while slotting this mission into the greater whole of discovering exactly what the germans will be up to , his memorization of the man’s life and his small village , and his own knowledge of brittany . with a wave signal of the pilot’s hand , he’s off , jumping into the empty night sky , frantically hoping he won’t end up in some gunner’s sights .
can hearne pull off the doppelgänger assignment ? we learn quickly that there are things corlay did not tell hearne , especially once he realized why hearne wanted to know everything about him . would hearn fool corlay’s own mother ? his betrothed ? the farm hands ? his mistress that he didn’t know about… more importantly , would hearne be able to move seamlessly into the role that corlay did not even mention , his darker side ? would you tell some stranger who looked just like you every secret you kept ?
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this is a very fair , fast moving tale of behind - the - lines warfare in occupied france in 1940 . however , the characterisation is rather one - dimensional , and the human interest somewhat stereotyped .
in 1848 nyc , a frenchwoman visits exiled former french marshal thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his french grandson but thevenet ' s house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune .
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i hadn’t read her books for many years and this summer i have decided to read as many as i can find in order in which they were published . i had forgotten what a good writer she was .
for the first half of the book , corlay isn’t in very much danger but he discovers an american hiding out on his farm . he decides to help the man escape to the border and have a boat attempt to ship him over the channel to safety in england . this is when the nazis arrive in town .
an american ( allan lane ) gets involved in a foreign revolutionary plot . linda hayes , robert barrat .
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occupied brittany , 1940 . . . hearne looked at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist . three hours ago he had joked with the red - haired pilot over a last cup of hot chocolate . three hours ago he had stood on english earth . three hours ago he had been martin hearne with 27 years of his life behind him . now he was bertrand corlay , with 26 years of another man ' s life reduced to heading
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a classic spy novel set in wwii . macinnes writes intelligently , letting the mysteries and tiny observations of human behavior drive the plot rather than complicated conspiracy motives . drifted toward a melodramatic ending but pulled itself out in the final moments .
easy read and a good page - turner . good atmosphere - remarkable given that the author was writing in the us
a disparate group of women try to adjust to their new lives after enlisting in the women ' s army corps .
there is something about reading these old / classic books that feels very much like time travel , or perhaps it’s my own nostalgic memory of my first encounter with them . they are immersive in a way i miss sometimes in current fiction . and it’s not as though any world - building is going on ; on the contrary , they’re very much based in the , then , here - and - now , in days that were / are familiar and almost mundane .
occupied brittany , 1940 . . . hearne looked at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist . three hours ago he had joked with the red - haired pilot over a last cup of hot chocolate . three hours ago he had stood on english earth . three hours ago he had been martin hearne with 27 years of his life behind him . now he was bertrand corlay , with 26 years of another man ' s life reduced to headings and sub - headings in his memory . he looked down at the faded uniform which had been corlay ' s , felt once more for the papers in the inside pocket . all set . he patted the pocked of the tunic with his earth - stained hand , and smiled grimly . from now on , he would not only have to speak , but think , in french . . .
in nazi germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp . the camp commander puts up seven crosses and , as the gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross . the . . . see full summary »
this is a story of the remarkable resemblance of two french men during ww ii : one of whom is dealing traitorously with the nazi occupation , and the other who is sent by british intelligence to try to discover the location of a nazi port in brittany that is destroying english ships . both the mother and the sweetheart of bertrand ( the first man ) are very disappointed with his activities and find it hard to believe in the goodness of pierre , who is impersonating him , and are slow to accept the deception . complicating the plot is bertrand ' s mistress whose existence is unknown to pierre . how the location of the nazi port is discovered and the double - identity is resolved form a thrilling development .
this was something my husband picked up at a flea market and i expected very little from it . it turned out to be an excellent , absorbing and well - paced story . and it gave a great sense of the fear and confusion in the late days of the second world war in france , where the protagonist goes undercover to gather intelligence in occupied france .
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both books were immediate bestsellers , and remain very readable – and continually in print – almost seventy - five years after their first publication .
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macinnes has the ability to craft a scene , a place , and characters . i found myself scouring maps of north - western france for some of the place - names so i could examine the land on google maps’ street view . besides the obvious larger cities , i discovered like so many readers , that the places are mostly fictional . that said , macinnes’ travels , familiarity with the languages and nuances of regional cultures , and her experience in brittany gives her credible subject - matter authority . the breton culture , its rebel attitude , its mistrust of outsiders , shine through and form good plot - moving devices . the condition of the minds and hearts of the locals is well presented .
macinnes , who wrote more than 20 spy novels , would probably advise any budding espionage writers looking for fieldwork that the next best thing is to marry a spy . her husband , gilbert highet , was an agent for mi6 as well as an eminent oxford classicist . this , her second novel , concerns a british intelligence officer who tries to spy on nazis in brittany by impersonating a french local for whom he happens to be a dead ringer . macinnes pulls off this difficult literary conceit , making you believe that the interloper can really fool his doppelganger’s mother , fiancée and mistress . so authentic was the novel’s depiction of espionage behind enemy lines that it was used to train real - life allied spies .
from 2 may to june 20 , 1942 . when m - g - m bought the screen rights in february 1942 , the novel was titled
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with the nazi occupation of northern france , the underground resistance is forced to sneak about in the dark . hearne , british soldier whose french is excellent , is sent to spy as part of that resistance , and he finds help in hiding with the beautiful anne . danger abounds . action , adventure , suspense - - a gripping story here , memorable in itself and for the skill with which it is told . helen macinnes seems to have passed from the scene , but her spy novels are well worth looking up , and this one could be best of all in my view .
@ jean s . : in rereading books written in this era , i’m finding a fair number of passive , and also passive - aggressive , heroines . i guess it was the style . while still we live was a favorite , though , so i’m hoping it will still work for me .
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, aumont fought with the free french forces in tunisia , italy and france . he was awarded both the legion of honor and the croix de guerre .
martin hearne had been summoned by military intelligence and given an important mission – enter nazi - occupied france to gather information about german activities in the area . but to do so hearne must impersonate a frenchman to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance , and that includes having to fool the women in corlay’s life .
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a french officer is parachuted into a breton village disguised as a missing soldier to discover information about a u - boat base in the 1939 - 45 war .
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i have been reading an old musty edition of this book , which i borrowed from a friend because it appears to be out of print . it is a spy story in which the main character impersonates a frenchman , whom he resembles , and takes up residence at his home in brittany . the frenchman ' s mother is shortsighted and much is made of this - - unncessarily , in my view . i am also shortsighted and i am absolutely sure that very little of the information we use to recognise people is visual . many great stories involve some sort of implausible impersonation , of course , so it ' s probably best to leave that to one side and plunge headlong into occupied rural france . the author takes us there by parachute and it ' s an exhilarating descent . i find the way helen macinnes writes to be very congenial . it is without humour , which is a bit dull , but she pays close attention to all the evocative little details that bring a place to life . reading one of her books is quite a sensual experience , which makes it especially frustrating to have to read a foetid old cast - off from a friend . but it ' s ok to read in the bath , especially if you can afford a liberal lacing of pungent lotions or oils . the story becomes more plausible as it develops and i enjoyed it more and more .
well - done movie version of the outstanding story by the author of above suspicion , another favorite of mine . aumont passes for another in france to fool the . . .
an amnesiac world war i veteran falls in love with a music hall star , only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post - war life .
for all of its cluttered bureaucracy , my summer at the pentagon reminds me why i went back to school for my master’s degree in policy . despite laying down a clear “red line” against the use of chemical weapons in syria , in late august 2013 barack obama retreated from his promise to use military force against the assad regime , deciding at the last moment to not attack . while there was no way to know then that syria would become one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twenty first century - - costing hundreds of thousands of lives , turning millions into refugees , and helping to give rise to the barbarically cruel islamic state – i was still shocked by the president’s sudden about - face decision . in the week leading up to the decision not to strike , i had spent most of my waking hours on the phone with members of the media laying out all the reasons the united states should honor its “red line” in syria . i realized there is a difference in shaping talking points and policy , and i wanted to be on the other side of the coin .
with the nazi occupation of northern france , the underground resistance is forced to sneak about in the dark . hearne , british soldier whose french is excellent , is sent to spy as part of that resistance , and he finds help in hiding with the beautiful anne . danger abounds . action , adventure , suspense - - a gripping story here , memorable in itself and for the skill with which it is told . helen macinnes seems to have passed from the scene , but her spy novels are well worth looking up , and this one c
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a mix of lengthy descriptions , unlikely central plot elements and a measured pace may not sound gripping , but it is intensely so . the element of creepiness in above suspicion forces you to keep reading , worrying ever more and more about the myles as the nazi noose begins to slip around their necks , until a crazy action - filled ending results in significant bloodshed .
i am on a classic thrillers of the genre kick right now ( escapism ? ) - these early hm books are amazing . the characters and plots and writing all superb - utterly superb - and the pacing and density of the story remind me of how writing decades ago felt more meaty than a lot of similar genre fiction now . there is just no comparison between this and most modern thrillers - this is amazing . but the thing that is always in the back of my head is the view that macinnes , who was there in europe in the
an engaging period thriller , written at the time it depicts , and so a valuable snapshot of the mood and details of its moment in time as well as a very readable diversion .
the dress : rachel wore a strapless lace gown by modern trousseau from jennifer’s bridal in hockessin . she didn ' t have anything old , but her something new was her gown and shoes . she also didn ' t have anything borrowed , but her something blue was a hair clip that had a touch of blue to pick up the color in dan ' s tie .
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plot : an english military intelligence guy named hearne parachutes into rural brittany in 1941 to spy on german troop movements . he adopts the identity of a wounded dunkirk evacuee , bertrand corlay , who is his physical double . hearne speaks perfect french , etc . etc . and gets a complete briefing so the substitution while suspenseful is not the main motor of the plot . so far , the novel reminded me of a minor but wonderful daphne dumaurier called the scapegoat : english guy drops into rural french setting and discovers that the french guy he’s pretending to be is a real jerk . the spying plot proceeds with slow , methodical detail which i quite relished , but which certainly dated the book as an entertainment . though the biggest shock came when our hero hearne is looking at his double corlay’s bookshelf and says to himself , “books are half of the man . ” at which point i could not help thinking , “not anymore , pal . ”
great review , jayne ! i have a few macinnes ebooks in the tbr . i was surprised how well rest and be thankful held up , and i’m looking forward to rereading this one .
young oxford university don richard myles and his wife frances are recruited to travel to europe during summer break in order to discover what has happened to a possibly - compromised chain of british secret service agents . the premise being that the two are so innocent - seeming as to be able to wander at will , from agent to agent , following the links as identified at each contact . in their travels they run in and out of numerous sinister encounters ; the nazis are very much on the ascendant and their evil shadow looms over the lands the myles visit on their journeyings .
to emphasize : these are very personal , completely arbitrary ratings . these are merely meant to be a measure of the book ' s success in meeting my hopes and expectations as a reader .
what a gift ! i found this book 20 years ago in my father in law’s library , and couldn’t put it down . then it disappeared . i’ve been desperate to find it lately , but couldn’t remember the title . thank you , carol ! i love the way you’ve woven the story without giving away all the details because i can’t wait to read it again and be surprised .
of the many things i had in mind for the summer in between my first and second years of graduate school , being a 27 year old intern was not one of them . and yet , now halfway through my 10 week stint at the pentagon , i can confidently say these past few weeks on the syria desk have been some of the most professionally fulfilling of my short career .