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Blown Periphery

16th Century

The Grand Siege of Malta 1565 – Part 1

5th December 2019 Blown Periphery 0

Malta, a small bastion on the southern flank of Europe, was the island fortress of the Knights Hospitaller and in 1565 it was besieged by the huge Turkish army of Emperor Suliman. The Turkish forces [more…]

Fiction

Némésis – Book 2 Part 7

1st December 2019 Blown Periphery 0

Fallout Phillips came down to breakfast and saw Cécile sitting on her own reading a newspaper. He was bristling with annoyance, “I thought the agreement was I would come and get you and we would [more…]

20th Century

The Sinking of the MS Estonia – 28th September 1994

21st November 2019 Blown Periphery 0

The History of the MS Estonia On Wednesday 28th September 1994 at 01:50 (UTC +2) the MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea during a storm, on a routine crossing from the port of Tallinn [more…]

Fiction

Némésis – Book 2 Part 6

17th November 2019 Blown Periphery 0

RAF Northolt and Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels – 1st and 2nd February 2018 Cécile was bored and full of pent up tension, so she decided to do a few circuits of the running track before dinner. As [more…]

Fiction

Némésis – Book 2 Part 5

10th November 2019 Blown Periphery 0

Permanent Joint Headquarters, Northwood, North London – Thursday 1st February 2018 Cécile was driven from RAF High Wycombe with COS Ops, his outer office bag carrier and an MT Driver. They left the A40 before [more…]

Fiction

Némésis – Book 2 Part 4

3rd November 2019 Blown Periphery 0

RAF Brize Norton Wednesday 17th January 2018 The RAF Regiment Sergeant was waiting for Wing Commander Hammond in the station’s Ground Defence Training Section at 08:30. He was expecting a dried-up and wizened old battle-axe [more…]

Fiction

Némésis – Book 2 Part 3

27th October 2019 Blown Periphery 0

Cécile passed the language course with considerable effort on her part. The history and culture aspect she found to be relatively easy and she did surprisingly well in written Arabic, but she struggled on the [more…]

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Némésis – Book 2 Part 2

20th October 2019 Blown Periphery 0

London, Sunday 14th January 2018 – Spooks It had been a short walk from Vauxhall Cross, across Lambeth Bridge and then north to the Costa Coffee house just off Trafalgar Square. As it was a [more…]

20th Century

The Mossdale Tragedy – Part Two

17th October 2019 Blown Periphery 0

On 24rd June 1967, while I was preparing to fail my 11-Plus exam and assemblies of foppish young men were mincing around “Swinging” London in Velvet smoking jackets and frill-fronted shirts, a group of ten [more…]

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