... war areas written by Army sisters on active service. The colours in the title refer to the uniform of the Queen Alex andra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, more familiarly known as the Q.A.s. These ...

... since its earliest days. For two years after the war he was in charge of the B.B.C.'s Television Service and he was responsible for the reopening of the service to the public in 1946. He saw through the first successful post-war phase, up to the end of 1947 ...

... He sees in that something very little different from what Hitler is offering to Europe. A Europe deprived of effective military and political inde pendence is an odious conception which affronts the conscience and insults the intelligence of free and ...

... y (Roger Livesey), in his Turkish bath. Exceeding his rights by an exuberant fraction, he insults the old gentleman, his military tactics, his paunch and his moustache. The Brigadier, with a sur prising display of energy, tum bles the N.C.O. into the ...

... says, you slept only minutes at a time, dropping down in your wet clothes. You ate only hard tack spread with molasses, for service from the galley was impossible, and wondered what being dead was like if this was being alive. For twenty-one years he was ...