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Avro Lancaster
Now we come to one of the most important aircraft that fought in World War II, the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber. When I was 5 or 6 years old we went to visit my grandparents who lived in Kirton-in-Linsey in Lincolnshire. The last part of our long journey took us along...
De Havilland Mosquito: The Wooden Wonder
I have been busy with the next installment of the Breaking Point series, which has the tentative title ‘Trial & Tribulation,’ a title taken like the other titles in this series from a speech by Winston Churchill. It is now 1943. My protagonists face the fourth...
A Real Life Game of Thrones: Jane, Queen of England for Nine Days
In this real life game of thrones if you win you sit on the throne and if you lose you lose your head! This is the second in a series of blogs on English queens. I am focusing on ‘regnant’ queens—queens who rule by right of birth like Elizabeth II—as opposed to...
Battle of Britain Day
“RAF Triumphs … Raiders Chased Back …” September 15th 1940 Battle of Britain September 15th 1940 saw the last mass daylight attacks on London by the Luftwaffe and is now remembered in Britain as ‘Battle of Britain Day.’ From that day forward daylight raids became...
The Blitz Begins
“The skies are colored blood red; our pilot expertly maneuvers the Heinkel” September 7th 1940Battle of Britain On the night of September 7th, 1940, 82 years ago today, the German Luftwaffe began bombing London and other British cities by night. This fell into the...
Churchill Speaks
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few …” On August 18th Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to deliver one of his greatest speeches—indeed, one can argue it was one of the greatest speeches delivered in the English...
