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Just thought I'd add this - I had a very interesting lecture this morning, delivered by one Squadron Leader TC Iverson DFC (617 Squadron). Very...
This reminded me of our brief correspondence about RAF Langar, Martin. It strikes me that if/when you get around to visiting it, if you ask nicely...
On Mosier, it's funny that I have read very similar comments about his 'The Myth of the Great War'. I'd decided to discount his work from any...
I've read both of them, but I'm more familiar with Overy's book. Basically, it is excellent. Thematic analysis, very tightly focussed on the...
I've heard bad things said (and by people in a position to know) about Neillands' book on the Hundred Years War as well, so I'm a bit dubious...
Incidentally, I had a lecture today given by the head of the Air Historical Branch of the MoD. Very interesting.
There a perceptible leaning on the the side of the RAF (in terms of weight of material, not judgementally, that is), and the book gives Harris...
In contemporary British newspapers, I think. I could probably trawl up the name of the journalist that coined the term, but his name escapes me at...
Linguistically, I understand blitzkrieg as its literal translation - lightning war. Operationally, I think you can reasonably apply it to almost...
It does indeed mention the Focke-Wulf Sturmgruppen, and gives a fairly dramatic and graphic account of the havoc they wreaked on an 8th AF raid on...
I enjoyed Tail End Charlies - aerial combat, and the bomber war in particular, can sometimes seem like an impersonal business; machine against...
Recently finished Richard Holmes' Firing Line and Tail End Charlies by John Nichol and Tony Rennel, now reading Frederick Taylor's Dresden.
Hear hear! What an excellent step! It will surely end the tyranny of alcohol! Next, I propose the outlawing of Ginger Beer!
More amazing than just mine warfare, to me at least, is the thought that opposing armies' miners could encounter each other deep underground....
I think the presenters 'fuck me!' just about covers it!
It's a bit much to say he fell without a parachute, and a partially deployed canopy means he wouldn't have hit the ground at anything like the...
Nice to see this name pop up - he's my head of department!
I think an equally striking figure is simply fighter levels - 170-ish German a/c in Luftflotte III and some 5,700 Allied in June 1944.
Because of where I was standing, I was able to see the parade forming up, and watching column after column of old soldiers marching past, and...
