20th Century
Tyler Gatewood Kent
Those of you who have defied all tradition and read my ramblings about The Right Club may just remember the name Tyler Kent. He was the cipher clerk at the US Embassy who was passing [more…]
WW II
20th Century
The Right Club – Part 2
Part 1 was the background to the origins of the Right Club and introduced some of the members who via various other shady organisations eventually joined the club. The very first fascist organisation in the [more…]
20th Century
The Malayan Campaign 1941 -1942. Part Eight
The Fall of Singapore and the Bitter End Wavell left Singapore for the last time and decided to salvage what he could for the ongoing battles elsewhere. He ordered that the last of the RAF [more…]
20th Century
The Right Club – Part 1
In early April 1933 Guy Liddell of MI5 visited the Berlin Political Police to discuss intelligence co-operation with the Nazi regime and more specifically its security apparatus regarding the Communist threat. His guide was Dr [more…]
20th Century
The Malayan Campaign 1941 – 1942. Part Seven
The Battle for Singapore Island General Wavell, Commander of the American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command was shocked when he went to Singapore from Java on 20th January 1942. No attempts had been made to prepare contingency plans [more…]
20th Century
The Malayan Campaign 1941 – 1942. Part Six
The Battle of Muar 14th – 22nd January 1942 The Battle of Muar was the last major battle of the Malayan campaign and was centred around the Gemensa Bridge on the Muar River in Johore [more…]
20th Century
The Malayan Campaign 1941 – 1942. Part Five
The Battle of Kampar 30th December 1941 – 2nd January 1942 It was clear by now that the British and Commonwealth forces were facing an enemy that was adept in asymmetric warfare and the Japanese [more…]
20th Century
The Unsung Canine Heroes of World War II
In 1945, a Collie-German Shepherd-Siberian Husky mix called Chips returned home to Pleasantville, New York. He’d seen North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, but he was not on a tour or a vacation, he was [more…]
20th Century
The Malayan Campaign 1941 – 1942. Part Four
The Loss of Northern Malaya By now the Japanese Army was deployed in Siam and Northern Malaya and the British decided to conduct an exercise akin to rearranging deckchairs of the Titanic. They formed the [more…]