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Old 4th Jun 2023, 08:29
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Originally Posted by chevvron
I understand from recent threads that the same could be said of Gibson and indeed of Churchill..

And indeed ( heresy as it is) W@@kle-Brown. As stated in one of his reviews “ possessed of a certain froideur”. I attended one of his presentations many moons ago and at the after drinks stage he was verging on the dismissive, barely interested…and downright rude, to some fairly well decorated and interested participants. I’d like to think some of his experiences at Nuremberg etc may have honed his outlook on life…more likely that high achievers such as he, Bader, Gibson etc just required a certain make up
to function in the way that they did.
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