From Oblivion to Triumph
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Telling the story of the Battle for Hong Kong, #SOE Force 136, and the making of modern Canada by Rick Green.
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From Oblivion to Triumph - How Two Vancouverites Meeting in Free China Changed Canadian History
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For an introduction to the story about the Battle for Hong Kong, #SOE, Force 136, and the making of modern Canada, see the presentation by Rick Green on #WW2TV with @ww2tv.bsky.social at www.youtube.com/live/dEebnwD....
With the US embargo, the Japanese already saw themselves facing "grave" consequences. To agree to US demands was unacceptable.
#OTD #WWII #WWIIhistory
#OTD #WWII #WWIIhistory
[November 25th, 1945] Churchill Asked Roosevelt On Nov. 30, ’41, To Warn Japan Of ‘Gravest Consequences’ (New York Times)
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
With the US embargo, the Japanese already saw themselves facing "grave" consequences. To agree to US demands was unacceptable.
#OTD #WWII #WWIIhistory
#OTD #WWII #WWIIhistory
#OTD in 1936, the Anti-Comintern Pact was signed in Berlin between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It was aimed at countering the influence of the Communist International and signaled Japan’s readiness to associate itself with revisionist powers in Europe.
#WWII #WWIIhistory #antifa
#WWII #WWIIhistory #antifa
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#OTD in 1936, the Anti-Comintern Pact was signed in Berlin between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. It was aimed at countering the influence of the Communist International and signaled Japan’s readiness to associate itself with revisionist powers in Europe.
#WWII #WWIIhistory #antifa
#WWII #WWIIhistory #antifa
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SOE Agent André Hue was parachuted into Brittany with an SAS team 150 miles behind the Normandy Beaches on D-Day. Proud to be embarking on a series of talks with André's daughter Nikki where we tell his extraordinary story. We begin at the Combined Military Services Museum (1/3)
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
SOE Agent André Hue was parachuted into Brittany with an SAS team 150 miles behind the Normandy Beaches on D-Day. Proud to be embarking on a series of talks with André's daughter Nikki where we tell his extraordinary story. We begin at the Combined Military Services Museum (1/3)
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"Masters of Mayhem" is now available in paperback!
Learn about how T. E. Lawrence's ideas influenced modern special operations warfare.
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#militaryhistory #telawrence #britishmilitary
Learn about how T. E. Lawrence's ideas influenced modern special operations warfare.
Order Now: https://tinyurl.com/278yvanm
#militaryhistory #telawrence #britishmilitary
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Masters of Mayhem" is now available in paperback!
Learn about how T. E. Lawrence's ideas influenced modern special operations warfare.
Order Now: https://tinyurl.com/278yvanm
#militaryhistory #telawrence #britishmilitary
Learn about how T. E. Lawrence's ideas influenced modern special operations warfare.
Order Now: https://tinyurl.com/278yvanm
#militaryhistory #telawrence #britishmilitary
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It started off as a strange fascination with It Aint Half Hot Mum, turned into a PhD and now a biography coming out next year. On Tuesday 2 Dec 7pm I'll be waxing lyrical about the real story of organised troop entertainment on @ww2tv.bsky.social.
Hope you can join:
www.youtube.com/live/86qfHAq...
Hope you can join:
www.youtube.com/live/86qfHAq...
Organised Entertainment in the British Army and its Influence on Morale
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November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It started off as a strange fascination with It Aint Half Hot Mum, turned into a PhD and now a biography coming out next year. On Tuesday 2 Dec 7pm I'll be waxing lyrical about the real story of organised troop entertainment on @ww2tv.bsky.social.
Hope you can join:
www.youtube.com/live/86qfHAq...
Hope you can join:
www.youtube.com/live/86qfHAq...
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Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
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Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
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Read the inspiring story of the Danish factory supervisor who rescued 10,000 Chinese civilians during the Sino-Japanese War.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/5h9v6f4n
#booksky #sinojapanesewar #asianhistory
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/5h9v6f4n
#booksky #sinojapanesewar #asianhistory
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Read the inspiring story of the Danish factory supervisor who rescued 10,000 Chinese civilians during the Sino-Japanese War.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/5h9v6f4n
#booksky #sinojapanesewar #asianhistory
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/5h9v6f4n
#booksky #sinojapanesewar #asianhistory
#histbookchat "The Soong Dynasty" has been on my bookshelf for a very long time. Thought it was time to follow the money to better understand the Republican period power dynamics before getting into biographies on Jiǎng Jièshí (AKA Chiang Kai-shek). Has anyone read this?
#booksky #sinology
#booksky #sinology
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
#histbookchat "The Soong Dynasty" has been on my bookshelf for a very long time. Thought it was time to follow the money to better understand the Republican period power dynamics before getting into biographies on Jiǎng Jièshí (AKA Chiang Kai-shek). Has anyone read this?
#booksky #sinology
#booksky #sinology
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I was very sad when Ian Pegg stopped hosting the WHW Zooms, I miss them a lot and I think others do to, so if you are free next Thursday I would love you to join in, I intend to stick to the format Ian used. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I was very sad when Ian Pegg stopped hosting the WHW Zooms, I miss them a lot and I think others do to, so if you are free next Thursday I would love you to join in, I intend to stick to the format Ian used. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please share with friends.
Please share with friends.
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#OTD 18/11/1941 #RememberRCN -HMCS PRINCE ROBERT & Troopship Awatea arrive Hong Kong with 2000 soldiers from the Winnipeg Grenadiers & Royal Rifles of Canada from Quebec, to reinforce the Garrison with war with Japan looming.
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#OTD 18/11/1941 #RememberRCN -HMCS PRINCE ROBERT & Troopship Awatea arrive Hong Kong with 2000 soldiers from the Winnipeg Grenadiers & Royal Rifles of Canada from Quebec, to reinforce the Garrison with war with Japan looming.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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City of #Burnaby makes formal apology for decades of discrimination against people of #Chinese descent: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.... The project continues for a #Canada that has "respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion".
Burnaby apologizes for historic discrimination against people of Chinese descent | CBC News
Burnaby, B.C., has delivered a formal apology for decades of discrimination against Chinese Canadians, acknowledging that historic municipal laws and policies barred people of Chinese descent from wor...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
City of #Burnaby makes formal apology for decades of discrimination against people of #Chinese descent: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.... The project continues for a #Canada that has "respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion".
Nice to see the Vernon Morning Start cover Linda Yip's talk about Commando Bay and the Chinese Canadians of Force 136.
- vernonmorningstar.com/2025/11/12/k...
#CanadaRemembers #RemembranceDay #canadianhistory #WWII #SOE #Force136
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#CanadaRemembers #RemembranceDay #canadianhistory #WWII #SOE #Force136
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Nice to see the Vernon Morning Start cover Linda Yip's talk about Commando Bay and the Chinese Canadians of Force 136.
- vernonmorningstar.com/2025/11/12/k...
#CanadaRemembers #RemembranceDay #canadianhistory #WWII #SOE #Force136
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#CanadaRemembers #RemembranceDay #canadianhistory #WWII #SOE #Force136
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How does this 80-year-old war live on? In a refugee camp school - the Phoenix School. Lev & Alex met a young boy named 'Japan'. He was named in honour of his grandfather, a hero of what the family calls "the Japan War". Hear this amazing story on the pod, and catch The Last Burma Star on Sky History
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
How does this 80-year-old war live on? In a refugee camp school - the Phoenix School. Lev & Alex met a young boy named 'Japan'. He was named in honour of his grandfather, a hero of what the family calls "the Japan War". Hear this amazing story on the pod, and catch The Last Burma Star on Sky History
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[November 9th, 1945] Canada ratifies the United Nations Charter.
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
[November 9th, 1945] Canada ratifies the United Nations Charter.
#History The end of #WWII wasn't the end of the war in the Dutch East Indies. The Revolusi Nasional Indonesia had begun. The British would deploy rearmed Japanese against the Indonesian nationalists.
[November 10th, 1945] British and Indian forces shelled Surabaya to suppress Indonesian nationalists, who declared a Holy War. Fighting intensified with Indonesian reinforcements arriving, and reports suggest 20,000 armed Japanese may be aiding rebels.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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[November 11th, 1945] Achilles' Heel? (Los Angeles Times)
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
[November 11th, 1945] Achilles' Heel? (Los Angeles Times)
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[November 11th, 1945] The Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) announced its dissolution as a strategic move to downplay its communist identity and present a more nationalist front, potentially to gain favor with international powers like the United States and China.
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
[November 11th, 1945] The Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) announced its dissolution as a strategic move to downplay its communist identity and present a more nationalist front, potentially to gain favor with international powers like the United States and China.
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This January I’m launching an online course for people passionate about History. This isn’t a historian telling you things, it’s designed to turn you from a vociferous reader into someone who is starting to think like a historian themselves… Sign up details: introtohistory.eventbrite.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This January I’m launching an online course for people passionate about History. This isn’t a historian telling you things, it’s designed to turn you from a vociferous reader into someone who is starting to think like a historian themselves… Sign up details: introtohistory.eventbrite.com
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For many in Burma, the war never ended. The current civil war is a direct aftershock of the 1940s. In our chat, @LevisonWood & @AlexBescoby describe meeting refugees who just fled the fighting —including some who remember being bombed in the Second World War. Catch our pod & The Last Burma Star now.
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
For many in Burma, the war never ended. The current civil war is a direct aftershock of the 1940s. In our chat, @LevisonWood & @AlexBescoby describe meeting refugees who just fled the fighting —including some who remember being bombed in the Second World War. Catch our pod & The Last Burma Star now.
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This is the second of a series of books one of our Trustee's Gary Weight has written for us. It's an introduction to #SOE & the collection of SOE artefacts displayed at the museum. Agents stories & how it all worked-the book highlights many of our artefacts-we hope it's of interest to people ☨ #WW2
March 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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"Superspy" is available now! Uncover Dane Hans Tofte's career as an intelligence officer in SOE, OSS, and CIA.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/3mcfbyn8
#cia #soe#osss
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/3mcfbyn8
#cia #soe#osss
October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Superspy" is available now! Uncover Dane Hans Tofte's career as an intelligence officer in SOE, OSS, and CIA.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/3mcfbyn8
#cia #soe#osss
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/3mcfbyn8
#cia #soe#osss
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Missing The Forgotten War Pod? Never listened? Why not charge into Series 1 and hear our overview of the campaign - the highs and lows of in India and Burma covered in 11 episodes. Find us on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get podcasts.
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Missing The Forgotten War Pod? Never listened? Why not charge into Series 1 and hear our overview of the campaign - the highs and lows of in India and Burma covered in 11 episodes. Find us on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere else you get podcasts.
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OUT NOW: Our Remembrance Day Special! Jack & Rob talk to Levison Wood & Alex Bescoby about their powerful new doc, The Last Burma Star. They discuss Lev's grandfather, finding a 100-year-old veteran, & the war's living legacy. Watch the film TONIGHT, 9pm on @skyhistory.bsky.social ! #remembranceday
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
OUT NOW: Our Remembrance Day Special! Jack & Rob talk to Levison Wood & Alex Bescoby about their powerful new doc, The Last Burma Star. They discuss Lev's grandfather, finding a 100-year-old veteran, & the war's living legacy. Watch the film TONIGHT, 9pm on @skyhistory.bsky.social ! #remembranceday
#LestWeForget🍁 In September 1939, Chinese Canadians volunteered for military service. Their country rejected them because of their race. In 1944, #SOE gave them a second chance. Learn about #Force136 and the making of modern Canada at www.youtube.com/live/dEebnwD....
#WWII #CanadianHistory
#WWII #CanadianHistory
From Oblivion to Triumph - How Two Vancouverites Meeting in Free China Changed Canadian History
YouTube video by WW2TV
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November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#LestWeForget🍁 In September 1939, Chinese Canadians volunteered for military service. Their country rejected them because of their race. In 1944, #SOE gave them a second chance. Learn about #Force136 and the making of modern Canada at www.youtube.com/live/dEebnwD....
#WWII #CanadianHistory
#WWII #CanadianHistory