Richard Todd actor also narrated at least one TV documentary about the Dambusters and contributed forewords to many books on the subject, including "The Dam Busters" by Jonathan Falconer (2003), "Filming the Dam Busters" by Jonathan Falconer (2005) and most recently "Bouncing-Bomb Man: The Science of Sir Barnes Wallis" by Iain Murray (2009). Todd died at his home near Grantham, Lincolnshire on 3 December 2009. His body was buried between his two sons Seamus and Peter at St. Guthlac's Church in Little Ponton, in the county of Lincolnshire. The gravestone's epitaph reads – "Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd, 1919–2009, husband of Virginia and
There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters Minister Margaret Thatcher who Berlinski argues was an important and remarkable leader. It credits Thatcher with the transformation of British society from an empire eternally in decline with a weak economy and an irrelevant political culture to a modern, wealthy, influential nation. The comeback of the United Kingdom mirrors that of Thatcher's own rise from lower-middle class beginnings. Berlinski credits her with being the catalyst for the deconstruction of the post-war socialistic policies of Europe, and the rise of the global free-market revolution. Berlinski uses archival research, author accounts as a person living through the Thatcher years in the United