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ARTICLE: Life On Top, Pétain 1917-18
It’s been a while, and so I thought it was about time I gave you the next instalment of my write up of Pétain.
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ARTICLE: War Ignites, 1940
I spent a weekend translating, and today I want to share with you an account of what the ‘Twilight War’, as Churchill called it, was like for someone I…
Jul 7
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The Man With The Iron Jaw pt.II
Last week, we left the story of Eugene Criqui, a boxer on the Western Front, with the lower part of his face blown off.
Jul 3
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FULL FEATURE: The Madness of HMS Fidelity, 1940-42
I was ferreting about at IWM a few months back in search of some British voices on the Fall of France in 1940, when I came across the following account…
Jun 30
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FREE PHOTO ARTICLE: One Girl, Two WW2 Planes
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to sit in not one, but two vintage, iconic aircraft, and today, I thought I’d give you an up close…
Jun 26
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ARTICLE: The Man With the Iron Jaw, 1915
Today I wanted to introduce to a French WW1 hero who overcame hideous injuries sustained on the Western Front.
Jun 23
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ARTICLE: The State of the French Air Force, 1940
Today I’m rounding off what I started on Tuesday with General d’Astier’s defence of the French Air Force in 1940 and his thoughts about war-readiness.
Jun 19
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ARTICLE: The French Air Force and the Fall of France, 1940
Sometimes I think it’s my job to tell you a story, but given my obsession with banging on about the French I think there are also occasions when it’s my…
Jun 16
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FREE PHOTO ARTICLE: Postcards From France
As I write this I am collapsed in a chair at my hairdresser Hayley’s house looking like a poor imitation of Tina Turner in Beyond the Thunderdome with…
Jun 12
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FULL FEATURE: Frogs, Medals and Red tape on the Somme, 1916
By the time you read this, I would have dragged my latest tour group to the French sector on the Somme and given them a grounding in the fact that the…
Jun 8
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ARTICLE: Witches, Ghosts, and WW1 Brothels
I had fun with this a couple of weeks ago, and so here are a couple more instances of French people behaving badly.
Jun 5
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ARTICLE: Four Days in Strasbourg, 1870
It’s been a while, so today I thought I would go back to the Franco-Prussian war and have a look at a snapshot of unfolding disaster.
Jun 2
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