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