WW II

Behind the Lines

16th September 2021 Going Postal 3226 Comments

Recently, there have been several articles on the major engagements in World War II, and it occurred to me that some Puffins might be interested in learning about the behind the scenes support of our [more…]

The Desert War – August 1941

31st August 2021 well_chuffed 3252 Comments

August 1941 was extraordinarily quiet in the theatres we are concentrating on. This month it is only news from Libya and precious little of it there is. But things were happening in Italy. In Tobruk [more…]

The Desert War – July 1941

10th August 2021 well_chuffed 3710 Comments

We reach July 80 years ago, it was quiet on the ground in North Africa but the navies were as busy as ever. There was no news from East Africa and precious little from Greece [more…]

Legion Of The Damned

9th August 2021 bobo 3674 Comments

“For every foreign-born soldier who dies, no German mother weeps” – Gottlob Berger The Waffen SS was the military wing of the Nazi party, although it is important to note that membership of the NSDAP [more…]

Postcard from Romania – Part Five

4th August 2021 SharpieType301 3200 Comments

Part Four of this Postcard from Romania revealed the joys of First-Class train travel through the ever-changing landscapes of this beautiful country, and a taste of Ursus, Romania’s most popular brew. We’d arrived at our [more…]

Zirkus!

7th July 2021 bobo 1994 Comments

Every so often the annals of military history reveal an individual whose grasp of the situational realities seems counterintuitive at best. Step forward Herr Major Bardlenschlager, CO of Panzer Ersatz und Ausbildungs Abteilung 100 stationed [more…]

Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike

1st July 2021 Roger Ackroyd 2176 Comments

There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]

The Desert War – June 1941

30th June 2021 well_chuffed 1822 Comments

And so to June, the first anniversary of the Desert War and it was a hot month in more ways than one in Libya and Egypt. There is also a small report on East Africa [more…]

Postcard From Kanchanaburi

24th June 2021 Going Postal 3264 Comments

In the now forgotten days when human beings were still allowed to show their faces and set foot out of the house rather than get fat on furlough, soon to become Universal Basic Income followed [more…]