Communism
The Lucy Spy Ring
Having looked at Die Rote Drei from a 1945 German perspective , this is the view from more recently. This bunch of spies is better known here as the Red Three and the Lucy Spy [more…]
History
Health
Medicine – Part Two
We wuz Kangz! Around 3,000 B.C. we start to see the foundation of ancient civilisations, for example in Egypt. Egypt conquered a number of lands to form an empire, and was in turn conquered itself [more…]
Arts
A New Dark Age
Godfrey Bloom recently made an appearance on Infowars with Alex Jones where he stated we are heading into a new Dark Age. I don’t think he’s far off the mark at all. We’ve already had [more…]
Arts
Henry V’s Agincourt Campaign – Part One
On a wet and dank evening of the 24th October 1415, a small English Army of some 812 Men-at-arms and 3,073 foot and mounted archers tried to find what shelter they could and waited for [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Eorforwic
‘Eboracum, Eoforwic, so good they named it Jorvik’ as that lovely song by Leonard Bernstein goes. I used to know dear old York quite well back in the day, and it certainly was my kind [more…]
Engineering
Die Rote Drei
This is yet again, based on the reminiscences of Dr Wilhelm Flicke – Die Rote Drei , or the Red Three , referred to three locations around Lake Geneva that were transmitting intelligence back to [more…]
Health
Medicine – Part One
We are often regaled with tales of Our NHS and the wonders it can produce. Indeed it reached a high point recently when it managed to cure the Skripals, who had been poisoned with a [more…]
Arts
Hano – what?
And now for something completely different. As we all must assume, Hanover has existed before giving birth to a British dynasty and for reasons completely beyond their current socialist city government’s control, it still carries [more…]
Communism
The Berlin Airlift, Soviet Response – Part Three
With the Airlift gathering pace it became apparent that despite the pessimism and misgivings, the Western Powers had shown the political will and the military logistic prowess, to supply one of the largest cities in [more…]
Engineering
Die Rote Kapelle
“Die rote Kapelle” was the name given to an agent transmitter discovered by the Germans in Belgium. They applied the term Kapelle to every case so there was the “Schrammel-Kapelle” , “Zither-Kapelle” , “Blas-Kapelle” an [more…]
Communism
The Berlin Airlift Begins – Part Two
Avro York Aircraft lined up in West Germany, Destination Berlin While the road and rail routes into Berlin from the West had never been negotiated, the air routes had specified in writing, that there would [more…]
Engineering
The Puckle Gun and Others – Part One
War is the driver of technological development. If it were not, we’d still be knocking each other over the head with stone axes. QED. However, not every new military idea gets adopted into the mainstream, [more…]
Engineering
Battle of the Atlantic, Part Two
As has already been mentioned , the German submarine commander liked to attack the largest convoys with the maximum number of U-Boats he could muster , even if this meant other contacted convoys getting through [more…]
History
The myth of a country called Palestine and the lies of the left, Part One
The geographical area we now know as the state of Israel and the Gaza strip was long ruled over in ancient antiquity by either the Pharaohs of Egypt or the rulers of the Hittite kingdom [more…]
Engineering
The Spitfire, of course
Ask anyone from the general public to name a great aeroplane or a great British fighter of WWII, and chances are they will say, without hesitation, “The Spitfire of course.” If you ask why you [more…]
Engineering
The Castle
I love castles and have always found their development and changing functions fascinating. They show social, military and political history. They are a physical representation of the past, and yet many of them are still in [more…]
America
The Berlin Airlift 1948 – 1949, Part One
This is dedicated to a man, the son of a Yorkshire miner, who served his country in Iraq 1936 – 1941, Egypt 1941 – 1943, Canada 1944, Air Bomber Lancaster No 153 Squadron 1944 – [more…]
America
Battle of the Atlantic, Part One
In 1953 the Operational Evaluation Group of the US Navy produced a report on the effectiveness of the decrypted intelligence during the Battle of the Atlantic. They tried to calculate how the decryption helped both [more…]