Military history nerds!
Can anyone recommend a good book on the Dardanelles/Gallipoli?
Map for tax.
6 June, 1944.
Back when Americans fought authoritarian regimes.
I'm listening to an excellent audiobook about Op Torch that is only let down by the fact that the narrator cannot pronounce Fallschirmjäger.
"It's fal-shirm-yayger, not fal-shirm-yarrger," she mutters to herself in her car like an incredibly cool person.
I just ordered one of these books via a secondhand seller on Amazon and it popped up with "Arrives before Father's Day!"
Reminded me of the time I was at the IWM and Max Hastings was doing a signing - he asked if he should make it out to my dad and I said "no, I have a PhD in military history."
I am reading this today and will obviously be picturing Jason Isaacs throughout
Journalist: "Could you help clarify what happened with the Apache shootdown?"
Me: "I love that you called me but I absolutely cannot, no."
Me accepting another press interview about French defence procurement being better than British defence procurement
We're all trying to find the guy who did this
I just think it should be possible to find a Dem Senate candidate who has never had a Totenkopf tattooed on their body
