Really excited for this, Chris! Awesome to see a historian like yourself writing these sorts of books, especially during our own 'dark times'.
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Really excited for this, Chris! Awesome to see a historian like yourself writing these sorts of books, especially during our own 'dark times'.
What a brilliant concept for a book! An in-universe collection of starfighter pilot memoirs by the pre-eminent rebel pilot of the Galactic Civil War.
Wedge Antilles was always a survivor, both in Legends and Canon. Great to see him used here.
I can't say I've had a more anticipated #StarWars book!
Well, the royal you combined to elect the guy for a second term. At least there's hope at the midterms. His pigs breakfast is bad enough.
I hear where you are coming from, but there's some scary stuff happening inside the US as well.
Not to mention how much your current leadership seems to be enabling other threats to act however they please.
The country that did the most to set one world order (c.1945) is now unraveling it.
I recall Ted Barris has the story of an RCAF pilot flying a Mosquito meteorological aircraft to help put together the weather report in his book.
Am taking bets on whether the Canadians will even Garner a mention.
Still, I missed the stage play so I am looking forward to this.
Taps the sign.
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Back off, Brits. He's ours again.
Pretty darn good they may be, but Trump really wants the resources. He doesn't actually care about security.
Yeah, I figured as much.
The billion dollar gift (not sure what the final total was) plus Canada basically covered UK's share of the BCATP.
Canada's weight in the war wasn't just on the frontlines.
Finished @alanallport.bsky.social's Advance Britannia this weekend. Quite the achievement (him, not me).
I would have liked a bit more about certain Dominion contributions - including to help the Britain financially at the end of the war.
But at almost 500 pages of text there's so much there.
When researching Canadians who fought and died in WW2, I want to learn their backgrounds. To help the audience connect. To humanize the story.
As a historian, one thing that troubles me about recent events in the US is how many use the victim's background to villianize rather than empathize.
When does the IIHF kick the US out of hockey competitions, like they did Russia for Ukraine?
Richard Hammond's Strangling the Axis is very good on the specific subject of interdicting Axis logistics across the middle sea.
The Mediterranean Air War by Robert S. Ehlers Jr. was quite good from about a decade ago.
I have some ideas, but they are more air war in focus, or more air-land-sea + diplomacy. For the latter, there is Douglas Porch's The Path to Victory.
I'm already seeing plenty of parallels with Milner's Second Front (a more focused study, of course) regarding US-UK relations.
I guess the more likely comparison will be Daniel Todman's duology. I did appreciate his dives into popular culture and social history.
1944 as in written about ad nausium. Though I guess most of that is Normandy and Arnhem.
That is where I found it.
Would you say 1944 is the exception to that?
Japan/America's entry into the war certainly was a watershed.
Hah! Which was the least, least enjoyable?
I guess, I could re-jig the question as which part of Britain's war do you find more interesting?
Which book did you enjoy writing more?
The United States has lost its soul. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Very interesting they didn't go with the frayed edges on the pages (or whatever it is called) with this one. Should still look good on the shelf next to the one about the Shirefolk.
I thought @alanallport.bsky.social's latest wasn't out in North America for another week. Glad I was wrong.
Britain still seems to be at bay in the first 75 pages or so. Really in need of a win in mid-1942. And Dieppe mk I still hasn't been "postponed indefinitely".
#HolidayReads
Yeah, there are some rough parts there that look like they resulted from a replace everything correction.
Awesome! It has quite the breadth in terms of subject matter.
With a slight respite in the Canada Post strike, I finally got my contributor's copy of @mike-bechthold.bsky.social's Airpower and the Normandy Campaign!
Looking forward to reading the contributions of @boneyabroad.com, @heatheratacts.bsky.social, @smoorebofb1940.bsky.social and many others!
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