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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 23

13th June 2021 Blown Periphery 0

While Jarvis was undergoing his rehabilitation to strengthen his legs and rebuild muscle, Edge undertook his last mission for the UK Special Forces.  Jarvis had so much wanted to thank his comrade who had truly [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 22

6th June 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Op Ellamy 2011 In a news broadcast on 19th January 2012, the BBC revealed that units from 22 SAS had been redeployed to Libya as part of Operation Ellamy, the British Prime Minister David Cameron’s [more…]

20th Century

Exocet – the missile that almost cost Britain the Falklands War

2nd June 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Exocet is the French word for a flying fish. It is also an anti-shipping missile that can be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. The Exocet designed and built by Aerospatiale [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 21

30th May 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults. William Shakespeare Operation Moshtarak March 2010 They had come [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Part 20

23rd May 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Operation Herrick VII December 2008 There was no special treatment this time. Just a flight out on the Wednesday Trooper from Brize Norton with their weapons bagged and they would be carried on board as [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Part 19

16th May 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Basra October 2005 At 07:30 local Jarvis was dreaming he was lying next to Bluma in a requisitioned hotel. He could tell it was Africa because of the hot, cloying air. There was a terrible [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Part 18

9th May 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Operation Hussite – October 2005 Jarvis was having a late morning in his flat at Abergavenny, watching the young woman make them brunch. He had to admit that she was very easy on the eye, [more…]

20th Century

The Bomber Command and USAAF Bombing of Dresden, 13-15th February 1945

6th May 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Pre-Op Test Flights and Briefings On the morning of 13th February it was cold with rain in the Lincolnshire Wolds, after an extremely cold January with a mean temperature of -2 degrees Celsius. By the [more…]

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The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 17

2nd May 2021 Blown Periphery 0

Operation Kratos – 22nd July 2005 She was just another face in the hundreds of thousands of the diverse faces in London that morning. She was wearing jeans and a jacket, her Hijab worn loosely, [more…]

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