Steve Brown 🇦🇺 📖🖊️

You especially cannot bomb a proud ancient civilisation of 92 mills with a 600K strong army, now internally united with a common enemy. The US may just as well have bombed, let’s say, France. Plus we know that ‘regime change’ is the usual Septic window dressing, their secret code for ‘oil’.

I know. Just pointing out consequences the northern hemisphere may not have considered yet. No more Pacific bases for US ships, for one.

Dear USA: if push comes to shove and UK and Canada somehow become involved (unlikely I know, but…) you can assume Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿 are not on your side either.

This is absolutely what is forming up, metaphorically.

So if you win the Oscar for best actor, and then go and give it to someone who was not even close to being nominated, the recipient suddenly becomes the best actor in the world? Is that how it works?

A bit of a landmark day for me - attending the performance of my first play, Hear No Evil, a finalist in the Geelong Short Play Festival.

Unboxing!!!
Thanks to From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 for sending my author's copies of Volume 4 half way around the world, as work on Volume 5 (the final volume) continues apace.
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Alas Sean was on set rehearsing his next death scene😁 But I did have a Vietnam vet and a history professor in the audience - lots of interesting questions.

Steve Brown presenting Writing Military History at Queenscliff Library on Friday 22 August 2025.

I'd like to extend thanks to Geelong Regional Libraries and Queenscliff Library for facilitating my talk on Writing Military History as part of the LocalWord25 festival last Friday morning.
Such a nice venue! Such a good turnout!

And such a long and interesting Q&A!

#militaryhistory #Napoleonic

I'm just starting to prepare for my presentation on Writing Military History at Local Word 2025 - it's now only a couple of weeks away.
Booking link: events.grlc.vic.gov.au/event/13943709
#localword25
Plus... some latest stuff I did for Redcoat History:
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I’ve just read Peter Barton’s book.

Six of these on my list, BL at #1. Duellists at 2.

Channel 9 from Australia.
How are you going, Yanks - are you great yet?

Get well soon Rob.

King George’s Army, British Regiments and the Men who led them 1793-1815: Volume 2 | The Napoleon Series King George’s Army, British Regiments and the Men who led them 1793-1815: Volume 2: Foot Guards and 1st to 30th Regiments of Foot. Steve Brown Helion & Company Limited (2024) ISBN: 9781804514382 Pages...

Thanks to Owen Davis for a lovely review of King George’s Army Vol 2 (Foot Guards and 1-30 Foot). Vol 3 is out now, and Vol 4 not too far away.
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Eerily reminiscent of a high school second XI match in Perth circa 1978 in which I had the misfortune to be on the receiving end - on a primary school oval with a cracked concrete pitch and 40 metre boundaries. Memories…

It was great to catch up with Christian Parkinson last night to finally record Part 2 of my British Regiments series

It was great to catch up with Christian Parkinson last night to finally record Part 2 of my British Regiments series - due out on Redcoat History in a few weeks. Keep an eye out on YouTube.

Getting a July 1914 kinda vibe from seeing this week’s gatherings…

One of the best accounts of a ‘small’ battle out there.

Hear hear, for our Parliamentary and electoral system.

Very similar to Australia - our elections are compulsory so held on Saturdays - but same five week lead in. Oh,
and ours is this coming Saturday 3 May!

#skystorians

Some recent book purchases, three-quarters of which are appropriate on this #AnzacDay2025.
I visited Pozieres and Fromelles in 2016, the centenary of the actions, as well as Ypres, Mons, Bullecourt and Dixmuide.
The Menin Gate evening service was truly memorable.

Good Friday? Hot cross buns!

Prepping for another podcast with the excellent Chris Parkinson at Redcoat History - recording next Tuesday. Should be a good one - Part 2 of British Army ranks and structures during the Napoleonic Wars.

About 4% of our exports used to go to the USA. But I guess they will be going to China now.

Great hospital menu

My wife is in hospital for some chemo. This is her dinner menu. It runs to eight pages.
I’m thinking I should pretend to be ill so I can eat here.

Charlie Court pushed it endlessly in the 1970s.

So he is like Don Fanucci from Godfather 2 now, going around to visit all the countries in Europe to collect his ‘protection’ money?

Australian battalion losses in the attack at Fromelles, evening of 19/20 July 1916, from starting strengths of around 950.
Fromelles was these unit’s first action under fire. Welcome to WW1.