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FULL FEATURE: Oswald Boelcke: An Airman’s Life
Whereas the Royal Flying Corps frowned upon the promotion of the individual and advocated the idea of the Corps and her achievements as a unified team…
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ARTICLE: Tank Heroes 1916 - 1918
Today I wanted to pay tribute to some early tank heroes using their gallantry medal citations.
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ARTICLE: Exploring the Arctic, 1594-97
Today I’m indulging my boaty side, and venturing back to that bleak period, that fellow Great War Group trustee Dr.
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ARTICLE: Inside the Maginot Line, 1940
To go with the photo album at the weekend, I thought I’d stick with the theme of what it was like inside the Maginot Line in 1940, but this time from a…
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PHOTO ARTICLE: Inside the Maginot Line
I’m fully aware that a number of my subscribers are unashamed concrete perverts.
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Women of the Royal Air Force 1918-19
When I gave a talk at the Petersfield Bookshop a few weeks ago, they very kindly gave me a book I had been pawing in the shop entitled “Women of the…
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July 2025

A week off...
Just a quick note.
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ARTICLE: An Innocent Man Hanged?
A while, back I dedicated an article to the first known murder on a British railway, in 1864.
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FREE ARTICLE: Weathering Caporetto Abroad, 1917
Despite how depressingly long it takes me to read anything in Italian, I have an obsession with collection paperbacks that belong to a post WW1…
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ARTICLE: Prisoners of Vichy, 1941-42
Having concentrated on those who tried to express their distaste for the Vichy Government’s persecution of its own citizens, today I wanted to give you…
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Full Feature: Questioning Tyranny in France, 1941-42
"Our enemies are strange," wrote Isaac Schonberg to his fiancée, Chana, on 2nd October, 1941: "You ask the Frenchman, he tells you it's the German who…
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ARTICLE: A Determined Bid for Freedom, 1941-43
For today, you have George Brown to thank for a stellar bit of rabbit-holing.
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