The Inter-War Period

The Inter-War period is the time between the First and Second World Wars. It was a great time to be alive being marked by economic expansion, hot jazz music, art deco, women's sufferage and cinema. But then someone realized that tho be an Inter-War period they were going to have to have another war. This made everyone very depressed - indeed the period was called the 'Great Depression.' People set about electing governments that were crazy enough to start a war (Hitler, Mussolini etc.) or ineffectual enough to let it happen (Chamberlain, Roosevelt etc.) and so people stopped spending their money on surrealist paintings and started wrecking their economies to the point where a war might seem like an improvement.

Roger Whittaker

Roger Whittaker is a world famous English easy-listening singer-songwriter. His trademark was his unique whistling ability. What is not widely known is that he acquired this ability while serving with the British Special Operations Executive behind enemy lines in Occupied France during the Second World War. British agents like Whittaker used a system of whistled signals to communicate with their allies in the French Resistance while on sabotage operations against the Nazis so as to avoid linguistic mishaps. The technique is still used by UK Special Forces today in Afghanistan whilst trying to communicate with the Americans.