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21st Century

Big Boys’ Rules

24th May 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

In yet another BBC documentary on the subject, a Panorama edition entitled Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes dropped on 12th May and investigated serious allegations against UK Special Forces, in particular the SAS and [more…]

21st Century

Warfare – Snake style

22nd May 2025 Rookwood 0

Puffins that have their ears to the ground (or is it ears to the clouds?) will no doubt be aware of the excellent series of lectures by David Betz which very convincingly argues that we [more…]

20th Century

Beautiful Kashmir

21st May 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Never travel to a country that’s a funny colour on the map, or worse still, described by different coloured diagonal lines. Disputed territory is not only the cartographer’s nightmare, but also that of the traveller.
 [more…]

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Isolating Iran

19th May 2025 well_chuffed 0

The Donald’s latest excursion in the Middle East has been met with the usual carping and disdain from the legacy media. I will be the first to concede he has been over the top with [more…]

20th Century

Desert Mystery: Cartoons on a wall

14th May 2025 Going Postal 0

Recently, I acquired a set of wartime photographs sourced from a militaria dealer in Munich. The photographs are of cartoons hand-drawn across the whitewashed walls of a room. The style is typical of that seen [more…]

20th Century

In the Graveyard of St Nicholas, Moreton

7th May 2025 Going Postal 0

During a visit to the Tank Museum at Bovington Camp, Dorset, with my daughter, we decided first to go to the graveyard of the Church of St Nicholas in the village of Moreton in the [more…]

20th Century

Book Review: Soldaten, ‘On fighting, killing and dying’

30th April 2025 Going Postal 0

This book, originally published in 2012, is based on the discovery of transcripts of covert surveillance of German prisoners of war in WW2, found initially in archives in Great Britain and latterly in archives in [more…]

20th Century

Lands At Stake

5th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

A conversation that stuck An old conversation sticks in my mind. A decade or so later, through the synergy of passing time and the illumination provided by events, one plus one becomes three. On the [more…]

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The Falklands War – 40 years on

2nd April 2025 Godfrey Bloom 0

It’s difficult for me to believe the Falklands War took place over forty years ago In April 1981 I was a 30 year old captain in Specialist Forces reserve, at the training school in Grantham [more…]

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