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The sanitary corporal and the practicalities of coalition warfare
Pusan perimeter, South Korea, late July 1950.
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The Real X-Men
Part 2
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The Real X-Men
Part 1
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Hurrah for Biggles!
Like many men of my age, I was mesmerised by Captain W.E. Johns’ tales of Biggles as a child. Looking back I had no idea that he had written 160 of them…
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Historians as rock stars?
The 'We Have Ways' Phenomenon
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My next trip to Kohima, Jessami and Assam
Come with me in November 2024.
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OK! Let's talk about empire...
I sat through a dreary and self-indulgent conversation between two writers last week, one of whom has written what I understand to be a best-selling…
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June 2024

Operation Biting
A review
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The Stalin Affair
A review of Giles Milton's new book
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Some summer reads
Do have a look at the Aspects of History ‘Summer Reads’: my short contribution is below.The War Room is a reader-supported publication.
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Don Flickinger, the making of Blackie's Gang and the birth of para-rescue
(and how a C47 armed with a Bren gun came to shoot down a Japanese fighter...)
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It Seemed Very Ordinary
Colonel Hugh Pettigrew
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