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Andrew

@andrew617.bsky.social

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Discontented Malcontent, MA by Research, serial Labrador owner, ex commercial diver and instructor. Interested in the Second World War, the Great War, French Indochina. Author of Caen, Cobra and Confusion & Not A Military War. No crypto demons please.

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Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry folks, I had to delete the original post - it was pretty ropey, grammar wise.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 2d

Late again with my #HistBookChat offering. The last two chapters in which the old soldiers reflected on their experiences left me especially moved in a way I haven't felt for a while. Not every soldier was scarred by their experiences but all were marked by it in some way.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 2d

D'oh! Please forgive the two 'me's in the post above. You'd never guess I read and re-read it before pressing the send button. 'Tis about time Bluesky had an edit option for the terminally cack-handed.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 2d

I enjoyed this book too.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 11d

What's this book like, please?

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 11d

I can't argue with you Kristen but I will say this: If governments continue to deploy & redeploy a comparatively small number of troops from shrunken militaries then the point their judgement is blurred by what they've seen and experienced is brought forward accordingly. We ask too much of too few.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 11d

I'm afraid I didn't rate it but then again, that's just my opinion - I'd be interested in what you think about it once you've read it.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 15d

Sleep tight.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 15d

Absolutely.

The Dead Milk-Manga @spider76x.bsky.social · 15d

Everytime they speak against Antifa reporters need to say “let’s be clear, you’re pro facism, right?”

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 15d

At last, some backbone.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 17d

Yes I am, I'd like that.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you mate. I've got a couple of other ideas to follow on from CC&C, the front runner would focus on Falaise and The Great Swan, but I just don't have the £ and time.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 17d

Unlikely I'm afraid, but thank you.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 17d

I know the feeling, this one was supposed to be the first of a trilogy but things got in the way. Perhaps one day....

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 17d

Unsolicited testimonials are always welcome....!

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 17d

It's true... sorry Mark but it is on my 'to buy list'.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 17d

My 'Ready Use' shelf shelfie - there are others, lots of others scattered about the house.

Photograph of my most used books, mostly on the subject of General/Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery and the Normandy Campaign. Can you spot my own book amongst its companions?

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Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social · 18d

If you enjoy my work, please help me continue to do it. Snag one (or all) of my books as I’m furloughed and help me pay some bills! 🏴‍☠️📚 DM me! #SkyStorians #PirateHistory

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 18d

One of my favourite single volume histories of the 1914-1918 war at sea #HistBookChat

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 18d

Get going then. How about today?

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 18d

If Howl's Moving Castle could float it would be more seaworthy than the others.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 18d

I'd say (concept wise) the K & M Class Royal Navy submarines are strong challengers for that title.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 18d

Three offerings for this week's #HistBookChat - The Hastings book is probably the last one he's done of late worth the reading (although a friend says his work on Operation Pedestal is good). November 1942 I'd categorise as a good book if bought second hand but the very best of the 3 is HMAS Sydney.

Andrew @andrew617.bsky.social · 21d

Roy is critical of Navarre, very much pro Cogny. For what it's worth, I think if the Tai troops had been replaced with more reliable units, there would have been an outside chance of the VM, already crumbling by late May, would have been defeated. What would have happened next is anyone's guess.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · Nov 25

An Australian soldier poses with his mule on a mountain pass en route to a Jungle Training Camp, somewhere in Australia c.1942

#MuleMonday 📷 National Archives of Australia, 8303269