Back in France after his leave, on 12th July 1917 Mannock shot down a DFW twin-seat reconnaissance aircraft near Avion. He wrote in his diary: The bus crashed south of Avion. I hurried out at [more…]
Northern Iraq, December 2017 It was Sunday. Ripley had been kept awake by the wailing of the female fighters, mourning the death of the Peshmerga during the fighting of the previous day. They had buried [more…]
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love; [more…]
Northern Iraq, November-December 2017 The Kurds were ostensibly Sunni Muslims although they seemed to display a rather more developed attitude towards the practice of their faith. The women generally covered their heads with either a [more…]
In this work of fiction I have used the term The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) rather than the more familiar Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The term Daesh (al-Dawlah [more…]
Following the Ottoman naval defeat off Acropolis Point, Sultan Mehmet had Admiral Baltaoglu summoned to him. Baltaoglu was stripped of his rank and publicly flogged, but his life was spared, probably because Mehmet was wary [more…]
Sultan Mehmed II knew that he would have to strike quickly to take the city, before the western powers such as Venice or Hungary could interdict his campaign. But he also wanted to be patient, [more…]
Constantine XI Palaiologos and the Defences of Constantinople Emperor Constantine had served as regent for his brother John VIII 1437–1439. Constantine succeeded his brother, who died in Constantinople of natural causes in 1448, as Emperor [more…]
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