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YouTube video by Jacob J. Watson-Howland Everything You Know About D-Day Is Wrong: WW2 Historian Exposes What Most Experts Don’t Tell You

If you miss hearing me talk about war stuff this weekend. I urge you to watch me being interviewed by Jacob Watson-Howland here www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc7f...

I am looking forward to it

2 And are they wine flavoured?

Again, no

But they have port, claret and sherry written on them?

Err, yes

But they are not wine flavoured?

No, just fruit

French person walks off shaking their head!

1 Explaining Wine Gums to a French person:

Are they like chewing gum?

No

But they have gum in the name

Yes I know, but they are just sweets like Haribo

Harder now because the leaves have fallen, but the area north of St Lo, Saint Georges d'Elle is good

Congratulations to Frank McDonough on publication of the latest volume of his #SecondWorldWar series, this one focused on the Holocaust.
@paulmcgannon.bsky.social read very movingly from the book, at @hatchards.bsky.social this evening.

Out and about in Saint Lo and on Omaha beach today

I have it pre-ordered

The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else [CD] (Digipak) The Damned - Not Like Everybody Else [CD] (Digipak) The Damned return with a personal and

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Some great tracks by The Animals, Pink Floyd, Lovin' Spoonful, The Kinks etc

YouTube video by R. Dean Taylor - Topic There's A Ghost In My House

I believe this is what young folks call a "banger".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnR...

I am so excited that this is one of the songs the Damned are covering on their forthcoming Brian James tribute album

Interesting..

Sure, always happy to do more Bomber Command stuff

Thanks

Thanks Greg

A reminder to my followers from the WW2 history world, I am always looking for new guests and subjects for my YouTube channel. Battles, social history, biographies, niche research - all welcome. www.youtube.com/WW2TV

Here are some recent shows to give you an idea of the variety of subjects.

Mag and I went to a couple of the exhibitions at this year's Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents event. Whatever our feelings about politics, it's important to acknowledge the role of journalists covering conflicts around the World

Email me at paul@ddayhistorian.com please

Tomorrow at 19:00BST I’ll be on @ww2tv.bsky.social having a chat with Woody about Jungle Commandos and answering your questions! So if there’s something you want to know about the Third Arakan and/or the book, now is your chance to ask! ☺️

"There’s one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die – their silence.” Ben Hecht

Love his cheeky smile in that one

I am beginning the journey of "processing" my best bud Colin's passing yesterday. It was on the cards - cancer of the oesophagus is one of the shittiest ones, but we were hopeful, especially after he had a brief upturn 3 weeks ago.

I'll miss you mate, the beers, the gigs, the war talk and the craic

People adding extra information and detail in comments is brilliant. But when they do it in a passive aggressive tone it is frustrating. Things like "a proper historian would have said this"

Of course, but my point is, it used to be so simple

Thanks very much

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I tell you what Content Creators like to see in comments. People pointing out all the things you DIDN'T say about the subject. We love that, we really do. Nothing pleases us more, after all the effort put in to streaming, to be reminded about the omissions.

Do that more, said no creator EVER!

Is it getting harder knowing where to pay for a meal at restaurants these days?

Will you bring the bill to my table? Or do I need to go inside, and if so, do I need to know my table number? Does the server have a machine? Will you tell me how to pay, or do I need to figure it out myself?

Here is the link to watch folks www.youtube.com/live/RJCYje2...

YT comment of the Day. A viewer called @bfc3057 said I was "hiding behind anonymity"
Yep, somehow, despite the fact I appear in every show, wearing my hat, with my name under my image, I am hiding my identity.

Unless I am not me? And if I am not me, who the fuck am I? Shit, am I an AI creation?

My first attempt at kedgeree. Yummy

Congratulations - fab news

Don't suppose I could tempt anyone to try the William the Conqueror novels I wrote with @jaironside.bsky.social ? The beauty of it is you can imagine all the colours you like