Andy

🚨 Listen lads, I can’t stress enough how VERY IMPORTANT it is that two absolute idiots do an EMERGENCY PODCAST episode about the situation in Iran (Persia) between 1939 and 1945. 🚨

Very serious and very important, okay?

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Incredibly serious and important EMERGENCY PERSIA (or Iran) POD

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Thanks James! They definitely are real

If you want a laugh, you could spend a few minutes listening to me try and explain Frank Aiken and the Republic of Irelands neutrality during the Second World War.
I think you can audibly hear @rentaquill wince at one point.

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German ice was rather good for curling, that’s all I’m saying.

The Second World War. You cannot escape it.

Wimpole. Saturday morning, 2026

Good to see friend of the show, VD make an appearance again.

Even if you don’t listen to the whole episode, skip to 13m 20s
Bonkers.

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Thanks and sorry, James!

This GC blew me away. I cannot fathom the selflessness of Rev Herbert Pugh, who went down with the ship HMT Anselm.

An interesting aside, Anselm was sunk by U96, made famous by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot. Buchheim joined the boat a few months after Anselm.

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No one tell @andyaitch.bsky.social …. #winter44/45 #snow #overbychristmas-ish

I’m biased but bugger me, some of the stories here are bonkers.

Thanks for your support James 🫡

Hello. Some of you may have been on the WHW livestream last night and heard Al talking about our podcast @newsofthewar.bsky.social

We try not to hang off others coattails but, well they brought it up! (we’re overwhelmed by the kindness)
Interested? here’s the link

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Ike looks like such a dingus in them pantaloons.

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A packed pod. From duelling Montys to a sad moment of reflection, it’s all there. @merrynwalters.uk and @andyaitch.bsky.social put together a good way to end the week.

This is what News of The War is all about.
One small article, a postcard home, the hopes and prayers of a family in Leicester and the unrelenting tragedy of the Second World War.

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IWM (JFU 332) Kranji POW camp.

Who is this chap?

Find out who he is and what he’s going on about, tomorrow on News Of The War with @andyaitch.bsky.social and @merrynwalters.uk

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Same.

This is so good.

Never thought I’d enjoy a book on economics.

Surprise cameo for a Hebrew speaking Hjalmar Schacht

Please do join us for the tragicomedy of Pte Eric Brown and his father.
(And other stories)

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Absolute madness this Friday. Wheelchair users beware.

3hr commute this morning, I was wondering what Reynolds Woodcock, the central character in PTAs wonderful film Phantom Thread, would have done during the SWW.

I have rested on 3 Options:

1 - RNVR Destroyer Capt
2 - Senior officer SOE
2 - POW, Lt Col infantry battalion captured in Singapore.

Off there this evening

In a sentence reminiscent of something Philip K Dick might ask:

Do naval monkeys recognise post traumatic stress disorder?

Please, do listen to the latest ep of @newsofthewar.bsky.social

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Ha! Thanks Peter, afraid not, though I do a bit of Italian at one point

🚨 Latest instalment of MONKEY AIR RAID NEWS 🚨

Coming this Friday on @newsofthewar.bsky.social

@merrynwalters.uk

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Letter to the Editor in wartime newspapers were the the Facebook pages of their day.

In the latest @newsofthewar.bsky.social we have a retort to local busybody “Wilkins” who suggests the woman of Bradford are having a bit too much fun whilst their men are away fighting.

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Hey bud, which way to the latest episode of @newsofthewar.bsky.social ?

….. È da quella parte!

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