Vincigliata A military batman was a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. In the Royal Navy they were called stewards. The position was generally phased out after the war. There were a number of escape plans from the castle. O'Connor's attempt over the wall had failed, with the inevitable punishment of a month's solitary confinement. Then in mid-September 1942 a tunnel was started and designed by Neame, a Royal Engineer. Various officers took it in turns to work on it in shifts of four hours per day. This was hard blistering work, but they managed
A Place Called Chiapas reality of what is like to live in contemporary Chiapas, a relatively quiet war zone. The viewer must interpret and determine, for him- and herself, the true nature — social, political, military, of the Zapatista National Liberation Movement and its army, the EZLN. A Place Called Chiapas A Place Called Chiapas is a 1998 Canadian documentary film of first-hand accounts of the "Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional" (EZLN) the (Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas) and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight. Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the