Last update May 23, 2008
- Movies
- Tobruk - from 1967 about S.I.G.s at a slightly different place and time. Unfortunately, the studio hasn’t yet gotten around to making this available on DVD. And the VHS versions and those showing on TV are mostly cropped cutting out the most interesting character much of the time. (The studio had thought this would be a blockbuster movie but the public didn’t take to it and the box office was a major disappointment and so it still isn’t out on DVD.)
- The Horse Soldiers - John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
- Where Eagles Dare -
- Books
- Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold and also in the same series Memory, Warriors Apprentice, etc.
- The Lord Peter Wimsey Series by Dorothy L. Sayers, books including Gaudy Night (copyright 1936 - information on Oxford in the 30s and Britishisms of the time). Murder Must Advertise, Strong Poison, Busman’s Honeymoon and the TV Shows with Ian Carmichael.
- The Lyman Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnet, starting with Game of Kings (beware of dialect), and then Queen’s Play, The Disorderly Knights, Pawn in Frankincense, The Ringed Castle, Checkmate.
- Laurie King’s Mary Russell series including The Beekeeper’s Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes and O Jerusalem and A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- Megan Whalen Turner’s books including The Thief ( a book I love but a lesson in how not to use the first person point of view), The Queen of Atolia, The King of Atloia and
- Television Shows
- The Avengers - The Mrs. Emma Peel years
- Blake’s 7 - The character of Kerr Avon