Good afternoon everybody,
Here are comments on the end of the third part of the novel:

Clapham Common is an enormous area of grassland situated in south London. It was historically common land for the parishes of Battersea and Clapham, but was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878.

Liverpool Cathedral has a long history of building and was completed in 1978. The Largest Anglican Cathedral in the UK and the fifth in the world.

Book of common prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, "Anglican realignment" and other Anglican churches.

Assize court, the courts of assize, or assizes  were periodic criminal courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court. The assizes heard the most serious cases, which were committed to it by the quarter sessions (local county courts held four times a year), while the more minor offences were dealt with summarily by justices of the peace in petty sessions (also known as magistrates' courts).

Tortoiseshell glasses got their name because of the material of the frame which is apparently tortoiseshell. They were quite popular because of their unusual appearance, durability and warmth against the skin. Though the prices were rather high. The production was banned in 1970s and tortoiseshell material was replaced by artificial materials.

Balham is a neighborhood of South London and is part of the London Borough of Wandsworth. On 14 October 1940 Balham tube station was involved in bombing raids which took place in London during World War II. People took cover in the tube station. A bomb landed directly on top of the station, bursting water and gas mains and killing 64 people. 

Edwardian terrace is a semi-balcony which sticks out.

 Ford 8 is the first Ford automobile specifically designed for markets outside the United States of America. The little Ford was available in two and four-door versions. In June 1935 a reduced specification two-door model was the only closed-body car ever to sell in Britain for just £100, a price it held until July 1937.

Morden is a district in the London Borough of Merton. It is located approximately 8 miles (13 km) South-southwest of central London between Merton Park and Wimbledon (to the north), Mitcham (to the east), Sutton (to the south) and Worcester Park (to the west).

Emergency medical services (EMS) are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care, transport to definitive care, and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves.

Gray’s Anatomy is an English-language human anatomy textbook originally written by Henry Gray. Earlier editions were called Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, but the book's name is commonly shortened to, and later editions are titled, Gray's Anatomy. The book is widely regarded as an extremely influential work on the subject, and has continued to be revised and republished from its initial publication in 1858 to the present day.

Alfred Edward Housman (1859 – 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems “A Shropshire Lad”. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside.

George Crabbe (1754 – 1832) was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people.

Stout is a dark beer made using roasted malt or roasted barley, hops, water and yeast. Stouts were traditionally the generic term for the strongest or stoutest porters, typically 7% or 8%, produced by a brewery. It is quite popular in the UK. 

Comments on new part

Here are some comments on the new piece of Atonement including letter.
Yana

Millau – is the city in the southern France

Te voilà enfiń – “Here you are finally” (those who are learning French correct me if I am wrong)

Causse de Larzac – is a limestone karst plateau in the south of the Massif Central, France, situated between Millau and Lodève

Ming vase – a vase belonged to Ming dynasty (Chinese dynasty 1368-1644)

Sèvres vase – a vase made in is a porcelain factory in Sèvres, France

 

Nymphenburg vase – a vase made in the nymphenburg manufacture (China)

Bergsonian theories of consciousness – Henry Bergson (1859-1941) is a French philosopher of XX century.

Bernini – Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was an Italian artist and architect

Piazza Barberini – is a square in historic centre of Rome, Italy. In the centre of it place the Triton fountain sculptured by Bernini.

Piazza Navona – is a square in Rome, Italy.

Dusty Answer – is English author Rosamond Lehmann's first novel, published in 1927.

Good evening! Here come some comments and pictures for the new part of the text.

Sunday Graphic — an English tabloid newspaper. At first it was called Sunday Herald (1915-1927). It changed its name for Sunday Graphic in 1927. It came out of press in December 1960.

Bombing of Rotterdam — Luftwaffe bombed Rotterdam (Netherlands) on the 14th of May 1940 during the Battle of the Netherlands. After that nearly 1,000 people were killed and 85,000 made homeless. It was the last stage of the Battle and after that Netherlands capitulated because it couldn't defend itself from the air attacks.

Collapse of Belgium — After May 16 1940 the Allies retreated to the seaboard. The Belgian surrender came into effect at 04:00 on the 28th of May 1940.

Holly Trinity Church, Clapham Common — was built in 1776. It is located in the south of London, in parkland near the Underground station "Clapham Common".

Lambeth — one of the borough in London. It is located opposite the cities of London and Westminster on the south cost of the Thames (near the London Eye).

Millbank — is an area in Central London (The City of Westminster).

RAMC  — Royal Army Medical College was located on Millbank, in Westminster, London. Since 1999 building is occupied by the Chelsea College of Art and Design.

St. James's Park — the oldest of the Royal Parks in London. It is located in the City of Westminster. It is bounded by Buckingham Palace to the west side.

Elgar — Sir Edward William Elgar (1857-1934), 1st Baronet, an English composer. He is well-known in Britain for "Enigma Variations" and the "Pomp and Circumstance Marches".

Fifth columnist (fifth column) — the name came from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). During the World War II this name related to the Nazi secret-service which helped Nazi forces to occupy different countries. Such people worked inside the resistant countries.

Liddell Hart — Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart. An English soldier, military historian and military theorist.

They followed her in single file back down the corridor, like children in a school crocodile — in school pupils walk in couples (pairs) and "crocodile" means long line (= вереница).

Dover — is a town and major ferry port, located in the County of Kent, England.

Ivan

I made commentaries of Chapter 3 up to words "IN THE HALF HOUR before lights-out, after cocoa, the girls would be in and out of each other’s rooms..." I hope it is enough.

La Coupole is a restaurant that was launched on December 20th, 1927 in the 14th district. Solvet and son made it one of the most beautiful venues at Montparnasse. The Art Deco style was represented by large ceilings with geometric shapes and beautiful floor mosaics. This brasserie used to be and remains the place to be in Paris for lovers of French artistic life as Sartres, Cendrars, Ava Garner, Beauvoir or Yves Klein. La Coupole which exudes Parisian culture is the symbol of 80 years of frenzied life in Paris.

… an abomination to the traditions of Nightingale nursing… - Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was known as "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.

Also: The Nightingale Pledge, named in honour of Florence Nightingale, is a modified version of the Hippocratic Oath. Lystra Gretter and a Committee for the Farrand Training School for Nurses in Detroit, Michigan, created the pledge in 1893. Gretter, inspired by the work of Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, credited the pledge to the work of her committee, but was herself considered "the moving spirit behind the idea" for the pledge.

Original "Florence Nightingale Pledge"

I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my life in purity and to practise my profession faithfully.

I shall abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and shall not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.

I shall do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling.

I shall be loyal to my work and devoted towards the welfare of those committed to my care.

…army 3 ton lorries… - Bedford QL 3 ton GS lorry or Ford WOT6 3 ton Machinery Truck

“Bunyan Bags” had valves for irrigation of wounds and also covered it from infection and gently inflated to avoid contact. “Gunshot wounds were common and healing was inhibited by conventional dressings. The Bunyan bag with its valves for irrigation of the wound covered it from infection and gently inflated avoided contact. Our patients leaving with a limb in a clear balloon did look a little odd but as we so often said, there was a war on.”[1]

…as if they were new girls at Roedean… - Roedean School is an independent day and boarding school in Roedean Village on the outskirts of Brighton, East Sussex, England for girls aged 11 to 18. The school was founded in 1885 and considers to be one of the best and well-known schools for girls.

…Oxo cube… - Oxo is a brand of food products, including stock cubes, herbs and spices, dried gravy, and yeast extract. The original product was the beef stock cube.

…some had been VADs already… - The Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) was a voluntary organisation providing field nursing services, mainly in hospitals, in the United Kingdom and various other countries in the British Empire. The organisation's most important periods of operation were during World War I and World War II. The organisation was founded in 1909 with the help of the Red Cross and Order of St. John. By the summer of 1914 there were over 2,500 Voluntary Aid Detachments in Britain. Each individual volunteer was called a detachment, or simply a VAD. Of the 74,000 VADs in 1914, two-thirds were women and girls.

…a ghostly parallel life in which she was at Girton, reading Milton… - a village near Cambridge which is the home of Cambridge University's Girton College, a pioneer in women's education, which was moved there from a previous site in Hertfordshire in 1872.

John Milton (1608 – 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.

“from bedpan to Bovril” - Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar. It is made in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, owned and distributed by Unilever UK.

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[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/58/a3747558.shtml

Secong half of part II commentary

Since it was not clearly stated until what page we are supposed to read, I am sorry in advance if I went a little further than it was needed.

There are 2 words I failed to find out. I hope somebody will.
Yana Darashvili

ME  109 (The Messerschmitt Bf 109) – German World War II fighter aircraft

BC – ?

AD – ?

RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) – is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace.

GHQ – a company that produces military models.

RAF (The Royal Air Force) – is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed toward the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world

The Frogs – an unofficial name of organization which members (frogmen) are rained in scuba diving or swimming underwater in a tactical capacity which includes combat. The word "frogman" arose around 1940 from the appearance of a diver in shiny drysuit and large fins.

STUKA (The Junkers Ju 87) – is a two-man German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.

Flemish (Belgian Dutch) – is the Dutch language as spoken in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, be it standard or informal.

Salvation Army – is a Christian denominational church and international charitable organization structured in a quasi-military fashion.

BEF (The British Expeditionary Force) – the British force in Europe from 1939–1940 during the Second World War. Commanded by General Lord Gort, the BEF constituted one-tenth of the defending Allied force.

NAAFI (The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) – is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families

In the deserts of the heart / Let the healing fountain start – a line from Auden’s poem “In memory of W.B. Yeats”.

Passeggio – Italian word for “walking”

Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave – a line from XVIII poem by A.E. Housman.

The whole poem:

Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.

And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.

No devil take the hindmost – is derived from idiom “the devil take the hindmost” that means “let each person follow self-interest, leaving others to fare as they may”.

Chapter 14

Here some words that require some comments to my taste. You are welcomed with other words.
Yana Darashvili

Humber (car) – is a British automobile mark.

Chesterfield (sofa) 

Gladstone bag - is a small portmanteau suitcase built over a rigid frame which could separate into two equal sections.

Croydon airport – is an airport in South London

Surrey – is a county in the South East of England and one of the home counties.