🚨 THIS WEEK 🚨 @brushingboots.bsky.social unpacks Britain’s upper class today 🏰📘 From shrinking estates to hereditary peers & the National Trust’s influence, with Wentworth Woodhouse as a study of decline and survival.
🎧 Listen: shows.acast.com/hist...
#History #Podcast #BritishHistory
Tomorrow, we delve into the complex, hidden history of 62,000 Indian POWs from WWII. Join Rob & special guest Gautam Hazarika as he explores the "impossible dilemma" of loyalty after the fall of Singapore. It is a truly deep story of survival, sacrifice, & forgotten struggle #FEPOW #WWII #History
If you missed it - this week was all about Eisenhower and the Holocaust with the excellent @histprofdad.bsky.social
Next week - the pod will be talking about the road to the Battle of Culloden
Have a fab weekend!
V Force wasn't just regular soldiers. It relied on the bravery of local hill tribes—the Naga,Chin&Lushai people, or people like the anthropologist Ursula Graham Bower. Their knowledge of the geography of the Burma/India frontier was the ultimate weapon against invasion. #NagaHills #BurmaWar #VForce
#ThingThursday from me is something my 2 Div uncle made. He was with 208 Field Company RE, with all that entailed from Dunkirk to Mandalay, via Kohima.
On 20 February 1942 two of the victorious commanders of Operation CRUSADER were recognised by the award of Bars to their Distinguished Service Orders, Brigadiers Willison, who had effectively commanded the Tobruk breakout, and Watkins, who was in command of 1 Army Tank Brigade under 13 Corps.
Well once they realised the trenches were going to be something they occupied for a while, the spike went in the ground to hold it steady and the headspace was filled with...
...which was chucked over the parapet afterwards.
Yes of course! It is a must for anyone interested in the Burma campaign!
5 (fiction) authors I have read at least 5 books by:
- Wilbur Smith
- Edward Wilson
- George MacDonald Fraser
- Charles Cumming
- Philip Kerr
Tomorrow on The Forgotten War Podcast, we are in the desperate days of the summer of 1942. Discover how General Wavell scrambled to defend India’s frontiers against the Japanese advance. A story of shadows, and survival. Join Jack and Rob for S3 E6 at dawn. #WWII #HistoryPodcast #VForce
Indeed - extraordinary situations produce the extraordinary in people who (mostly) remain humble and modest afterwards. Not all of them get decorated for it either, and that doesn't matter. It is known by the people who do matter.
Still tickled by this! Nice one @historybowsh.bsky.social
Everything finally becomes 'of its time' I suppose, but that is what makes things alluring too. They were big enough to be made into a tv series in the 1970s.
The Archers is still going: Broadcast since 1951 as "an everyday story of country folk" now as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting".
I had forgotten about these, but distinctly remember them on our family bookshelves when I was little. I think I tried reading the first but being pre-teen was too ambitious. Something to go back(?) to...
This #photofriday offering is a new purchase ‘Milne Bay 1942: The Story of ’Milne-Force’ and Japan’s First Military Defeat on Land’ by Clive Baker and Greg Knight. I’m very excited about this one and will probably percolate it to the top of the TBR after the Coastwatchers. #histbookchat /2
'Even if you don’t usually read non fiction, you’ll find this book hard to put down. The way it weaves in the personal side of Peacock and his family, is truly touching, making history feel deeply human.'
#histbookchat
#Junglewarrior
Thank you! I'll try and remember to use the hashtag!
Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update (#173). It begins with reports of Ukraine liberating a large amount of territory. This could reveal alot of things, in particular that the Russian system continues to lie upwards about the state of the war. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Why not buy a copy from the @historyrage.bsky.social bookshop and support local book stores?
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jung...
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
Think Bushido defined the samurai? Think again. 🧘♂️💣
@matt-okuhara.bsky.social reveals that Japan’s famous warrior code was written after they’d already mastered the gun.
Tradition met technology — myths began.
🎧 Catch the full episode! pod.fo/e/3901a7
#Samurai #JapaneseHistory
Cover of the book Jungle Warrior by Richard Duckett, a biography of Lt.Col. Edgar Peacock DSO MC & Bar
#OTD in 1945, Major Peacock and his Special Group were poised for their second attempt to parachute behind the lines into Burma.
What followed was probably SOE's most successful mission of the entire Second World War: Operation Character.
German helmet - a Picklehaube
Has anyone recommended Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards? It is terrific. For example, do you know what early BEF souvenir collectors did with these?
Don't be daft! All we're witnessing is the sixth natural extinction process - in process.
The dinosaurs just didn't see theirs coming.
Green this, that and the other, are all a big hoax by ... someone else to make us more minion like.
Elon is taking us to Mars anyway, so it's all good...
I'm 1066. Apparently.
Normans were Swedish though, originally...(?)
So perhaps it'll all come down to a 600yr genetic test.
Oh.
Wait!
That happened somewhere else not too long ago.
Proving your racial 'purity'.
Hmm.
Does that mean I'm f#£ked or not???
Who makes the rules?
NEW EPISODE - High School Student to The Top Secret #USAF Red Eagles Soviet MIG Squadron Part 1
Listen here 🎧🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode444/
#avgeek #avgeeks #ColdWar @AviationXtended
Enjoy the ride! Remember, you're doing it cos you love it!
I am! 👍 Approaching half way and liking the build up.
Thanks for the shout out in the introduction!
Coming in to land at Berlin Brandenburg with snow below.
Brandenburg Gate from the middle of the road towards Unter Den Linden with TV tower visible.
Snowy Karl Marx Allee pavement
Berliner Dom majestic ceiling.
Not sure how many trips to Berlin I have made now but pretty sure it's into double figures. So much to see and do, every time there's something new added to the itinerary. #loveberlin
The book Jungle Commandos on a shelf looking out over snowy Berlin.
Look what got on the plane with me @lmbd1418.bsky.social
Sub zero Berlin meets beating hot Burma...
