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Lift Off

Lift Off

Two months of planning comes to a head tomorrow at 2:07 as I take off for Cairo and my tour of the World War 2 battlefields. I will be taking the leisurely route north to Seattle then to Istanbul and finally late Thursday night, Cairo. I’m sure there were more direct...
Not ready for Egypt

Not ready for Egypt

The Visa Story In order to enter in to Egypt, you need a Visa. There are two ways to get the Visa for entry. You can obtain the Visa when you land in Egypt or you can order one online. The thought of having to wait in yet another line at the airport once I had landed...
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

When I started to consider the documentary about my Grandfather’s book, it occurred to me that in all the research I had done, a viewpoint was missing. Why don’t I see in any of the popular depictions of the Desert War what the Egyptians, Libyans and Tunisians thought...
The Good War

The Good War

I was reading documentation that referred to the portion of World War 2 fought in the Western Desert as the good war. The war was good because Montgomery and Rommel did all that pesky fighting away from population centers. They went mano y mano away from the people....