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Remembering Kohima
When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today
Dr Robert Lyman
Jul 1
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Why did Indians join up to fight the Japanese?
I’m doing a few talks this summer on the subject of my new book A War of Empires. I do hope you’ve heard of it! One of the questions I’m regularly asked…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 27
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A little fun at Chalke Valley yesterday
I had a marvellous day at the Chalke Valley History Festival yesterday. The sun was shining (mostly), the audience was large and appreciative (and not…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 24
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To War with Cuthbert
Virginia Hall and La Resistance Française
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 21
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The Nine
I tend to read two or three books a week for pleasure: my work-related book reading is on top of all this. When looking back over the last year to ask…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 20
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Recording a monstrous atrocity
Julien Bryan in Poland, September 1939
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 18
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Chin Peng: the Pied Piper of Malaya
Or, how to let ideology and personal hubris lead a movement over the cliff
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 17
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Russia: an unending drama.
I’ve had the privilege of interviewing Sir Antony Beevor this week to discuss his new book on the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the civil war that…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 16
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“The Double-Barrelled Name and the Half-Cocked Offensive”
Some observations on generalship from Socrates to Stilwell and Slim, via Napoleon and a few others on the way
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 13
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Browsing through a treasure house: the literature of the Burma campaign
By the late Gordon Graham MC*
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 7
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Whither the Integrated Review. Still tilting at windmills?
The government’s Integrated Review, ‘Britain in a Global Age’ is now over a year old. It was written long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 5
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Writing about the British Army
I have read a range of books about the British Army recently, and they have all been very different, despite covering much the same ground. Simon Akam’s…
Dr Robert Lyman
Jun 5
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