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Historian. https://linktr.ee/PhilipWBlood https://philipwblood.substack.com/
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02.11.2025 22:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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02.11.2025 22:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Blitz the Sainsbury’s Tiger bread for me!
01.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
End of the staff ride, back to May 1940.
30.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Staff ride in the Eiffel and Hürtgenwald.
29.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nice picture. It looks in reasonable condition, most were destroyed by the British in the period 1945-55.
26.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I feel dinged - thank you.
25.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well you know scientists and their labs, don’t get out so much. 😎
25.10.2025 08:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for the article. Interestingly it compares with the German Army’s problems with Typhus in 1941-45 and into the post war years of occupation.
25.10.2025 08:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Everything, they talk a good game on Ukraine but it’s only talk.
24.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Spinelessness is the mark of Labour.
24.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The return of the coffee table books, the table in this case being an Indian Army officer’s trunk.
24.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One of the best shows on WW2TV, about artillery - on my third listening. www.youtube.com/live/vxFfkZi...
24.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pleased to announce a new series on Substack: Bandenbekämpfung goes West. Ascq, April 1944.
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A new post on Substack - Wikipedia as a Digital Source of Military History
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Latest on Substack, the final act - open.substack.com/pub/philipwb...
22.10.2025 06:35 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The latest from Substack - Aachen's Capitulation - The POW Experience
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No worries - it was my typo but the crash wouldn’t allow me to finish all the editing. I think his story is important and really creative.
20.10.2025 17:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As you can see: open.substack.com/pub/philipwb...
20.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was drafting yesterday when Substack crashed. This morning I removed the post and re-loaded. I guess this left over from this mornings troubles.
20.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A new post on Combat Fatigue and The US Historical Branch Reports
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19.10.2025 14:59 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lurking in the Aachen city centre bookshop … the founder looks on, approvingly I think!
www.mayersche-aachen.de
Have a great weekend everybody:
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Hopeless Defiance - Kampfgruppe Rink - new content about the battle of Aachen
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Have a great weekend everybody:
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As the #BattleofAachen came to a bloody conclusion, we can see how Model’s actions in September had transformed the war in the west into slow attrition. philipwblood.substack.com/p/the-german...
17.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Future War - in conversation with @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social
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Retired F-16 drivers: "F-16s won't survive in the contested air space of Ukraine."
The Ukrainian air force: "Hold my Obolon."
