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The Road to Defeat

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The Jungle War

A trip to the battlefields of Jessami and Kharasom

WW1 TV

Rashid Aly Al Keilani

The Decline of the British Army Between the Wars

So Red a Road

Jungle Jungle, Little Chindit

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

A podcast on the British Army today, and yesterday

The Essential Humanity of Soldiering

"The most important book on military history I've read in 5-years."

Sampan Travel's 'Beyond the Chindwin' Tour

Gordon Corrigan's Review of Victory to Defeat

Jungle, Jungle, Little Chindit

Could the Holocaust have been prevented, along with WWII?

'Wishful thinking does not buy peace, but hard power does.'

Clara Vine and the rise of the Third Reich

Book launch!

Corporal Dainty's Bottom...

Jungle, Jungle, Little Chindit

The 'We Have Ways' phenomenon

The State of Britain's Modern Army

Guidl - Watch This Space!

Jungle, Jungle, Little Chindit

Jungle, Jungle, Little Chindit

The Wandering Army

Jungle, Jungle, Little Chindit

Forgotten Warrior

Are you up for an exciting trip to the Brahmaputra, the Naga Hills and Imphal?

Giving Neville Chamberlain a free pass...

Come with me to Burma

The war-winning efforts of SOE in Burma, 1945

Andree's War

Bill Slim's 'Courage and Other Broadcasts'

The Sermon Preached at the Kohima Memorial Service, York Minister : 6 July 2023

Myanmar, old and new

Wow...

Why Ukrainians Fight

Professor John McManners' 'Fusilier'

ORDER OF THE DAY BY Lt-Gen Sir William Slim, K.CB., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Fourteenth Army.

Meiktila, March 1945

The annual Kohima Memorial service

The excitement mounts...

The SAS in Afghanistan

Bill Slim, mighty wielder of both pen and sword

The harsh realities of combat

Operation Chiffon

The Battle of the Beams

Escaping over the Pyrenees twice: the story of George Watt

Victory to Defeat

So, what went wrong?

Bill Slim: a soldier-writer par excellence

Apologies...

Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the east India Company

The Secret (Scribbling) Life of Bill Slim

The Origins of the Prosper/Déricourt Conspiracy and the Death of Truth

MI6 and the French Resistance: Confusion or Conspiracy?

The Burglar, by Anthony Mills (Bill Slim)

The General Wondered Why

So, how and why did PROSPER fall?

Fancy a trip up the Brahmaputra Valley?

Company of Heroes

A War of Empires

The Home Run of Lieutenant James Armstrong USAAF

Uncle Bill

How - and why - did the Nazis get to power?

Rivers in war and peace

Private Richard Chuck, aka The Incorrigible Rogue

India’s Political Future: A View from a Bystander

Black and White or 'How to lose a War'

Second Lieutenant Duff Cooper and the practice of Auftragstaktik, 1918

Come with me to the battlefields of North Eastern India

Nigel Biggar and the battle for history

Nirad Chauduri and how to interpret Britain's imperial history