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In a recent blog I wrote about the problems faced by the New Zealand Broadcasting Unit in getting their reports cleared by military censors. But in … Hugh Sullivan’s escape: a soldier’s tale from Greece
Background In a project of this nature and scope there will be errors. Towards the end of the publishing process, the perfect is very much the arch enemy of the good, and we know there are mistakes. When we find them, or when they are pointed out to us, we will correct them here. Please […]
By Jonny Briggs Tanks in Unexpected Places: The Fighting Effectiveness of 4th Independent Armoured Brigade 1943-45 is the first book I have written … Tanks in Unexpected Places – Author Blog
Background AI is becoming more prevalent every day. That is unfortunate, as it is a lying, thieving hallucination machine based on industrial-scale copyright theft, environmental and societal destruction, driven by lunatics. It perverts history, it deceives us, and it destroys every joy in this world and will wreck society if left unchecked. AI and this […]
Book Announcement – Breaking Rommel Available for Purchase Breaking Rommel: The Struggle for Air Supremacy over El Alamein is now available to purchase from IBN publishers in Rome, in time for the 84th anniversary of the 1st Battle of El Alamein. This is the end of a project that took several years of detailed research […]
Background On WW2Talk it was noted that the Australian Descendants Association of the Rats of Tobruk (soldiers who had been present for at least a day of the siege) took 10 December as the end date of the siege, as they considered this was when Rommel gave the order to retreat to the Gazala position. […]
Background The general story of the German defence against D-Day tends to focus on the land defences. While this is where the primary focus of combat action took places, it overlooks what was considered an important element of the integrated defence of the Normandy coast, the naval units based at Le Havre, and Cherbourg, and […]
Background A recurring discussion on ‘who won the war’, which started by ignoring the contribution of the Red Army in the beginning Cold War, then went towards over-emphasising it sometime from the 1980s, and in the last twenty years again went back to ‘actually, it was the Western Allies’ has a few years ago culminated […]
Background I have previously written about the story of the Malta Blenheims (see e.g. here, here, here and here) and more generally about the Bristol Blenheim here. A while ago I came across a war diary entry in Axis files that German merchant Brook, escorted by Italian gunboat Zuri, was attacked by enemy planes on […]
Background (from IWM) Ernest “Imshi”[1] Mason (29 July 1913 – 15 February 1942) was a British World War II flying ace, credited with one Luftwaffe and 14 Regia Aeronautica aircraft destroyed, two shared destroyed, three damaged and another three shared damaged in the air. In this photo he is serving with No. 274 Squadron RAF […]
