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The Desert War – June 1940

6th June 2020 well_chuffed 2963 Comments

80 years ago this month the North African Campaign, or Desert War kicked off. On one side were the Italians, desperately trying to expand their Empire in Africa, on the other were the British who [more…]

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The most dangerous man in Europe

27th May 2020 well_chuffed 4490 Comments

Otto Skorzeny was mentioned the other day and in the process of investigating something else I stumbled across his story. What a lad, his fearsome reputation didn’t quite match up to reality. He was in [more…]

20th Century

The Desert War – an Introduction

13th May 2020 well_chuffed 3908 Comments

Something inspired me to do a series of articles on the North African Campaign or Desert War as it it is also known. A quick look at the timeline and it seemed to be oh [more…]

20th Century

Jonathon Jay Pollard

12th February 2020 well_chuffed 2258 Comments

Jonathon Jay Pollard’s name cropped up in Ronen Bergman’s book. The Israelis wanted to attack PLO targets in Tunisia and the USA would not release any details they had about the air defences though it [more…]

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Operation Keelhaul

29th January 2020 well_chuffed 2968 Comments

Come the end of the second world war, the last thing Stalin wanted was any number of Russians who were potentially his enemies wandering around the Western countries. To ensure this did not happen his [more…]

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Communist Flip Flops

22nd January 2020 well_chuffed 2301 Comments

The aspiration for this article is to enlighten some Puffins about the several about-turns the Communists were forced into before, during and after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were enemies, [more…]

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The Marshall Plan

15th January 2020 well_chuffed 3733 Comments

Following on from the Morgenthau Plan, only partially and half-heartedly implemented, we come to the much better known Marshall Plan. This was named after General Marshall who at the time was the US Secretary of [more…]

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The Morgenthau Plan behind the scenes

8th January 2020 well_chuffed 4091 Comments

Having written about the Morgenthau Plan, I finally found my book that detailed all the behind the scenes machinations involved in producing the Plan. It is not a pretty sight seeing as many of those [more…]

20th Century

The Morgenthau Plan

19th December 2019 well_chuffed 1953 Comments

The idea for this came from some bar steward who read a comment I had made, imagine that , people reading the comments, perfidy I tell you. Anyway it seems the Morgenthau Plan may not [more…]

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