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I am reading, at long last, John Keegan's definitive book, The Second World War.  The fast-paced opening chapters have sent me headlong across Europe with Hitler's Blitzkrieg. It is a rich book.

Now, I see in the NY Times, I can follow those WWII events "contemporaneously" through a Twitter feed (RealTimeWWII) by Alwyn Collinson whose 40 posts per day have a following of 140,000 readers. He draws on diaries, time lines and other resources to align WWII events to our present calendar and hours - allowing us to experience this "breaking event." Neat idea.