Michael Napier

YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

#Gremi #Castle #Kakheti #Georgia

#OnThisDay in 1945, the last of 11,461 Vickers Wellingtons was delivered, a Mk X.

Read our Wellington profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-airc... #aviation #history

A vertical aerial photograph taken during a bombing operation at Kassel Rail Depot.No ground detail is visible and the image is obscured by flares. It looks quite pretty and abstract. It is captioned '3485 PCK 22/23:10:43 // NT 8" 16000'--- Kassel RD. Z. 2 x 1000 8 x 4 3 x 30 S/L MIllson Y 102'. IBCC Digital Archive item 51110

Kassel was bombed #OTD 22/23 October 1943 by 569 aircraft dropping 1,800 tons of bombs & nearly half a million incendiaries. A firestorm was created, the city centre was destroyed, 10,000 were killed & 100,000 were made homeless. 43 aircraft were lost and 240 aircrew were killed.
#WW2 #History

10 other wooden wonders: hushkit.substack.com/p/10-wooden-...

Happy Publication day to me! 🥳
Jungle Commandos is out now! @ospreypublishing.bsky.social

I want to grow on here. If you enjoy what I (and we) do, please do recommend us. Much appreciated (Corsair edition of this tweet)

Dan on stage gesturing at a slide on a screen. The slide has a photo of off duty WAAFs outside a building. it is captioned 'Gash trades and Dilution: the experience of WAAFs'. Dan is wearing a Never Mind the Dam Busters T-shirt.

Pic from my talk "Penguins and Chop Girls: Remembering RAF Bomber Command ground personnel 1939-45" for the Lincoln Branch of the @histassoc.bsky.social last night. I really enjoyed it, and I got some wizard questions. @uolhumanities.bsky.social @nmtdambusters.bsky.social #History #WW2

Use discount code LASERMANGO15 for 15% discount on The Hush-Kit Book of Warplanes if you order via Substack or my social channels before 12 October 2025.

I've been asked to do another talk, a webinar 13:00, 15th Oct. "The International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive:
An Inclusive Approach to Dealing with Difficult Heritage" #History #Heritage

Volunteers, veterans and staff inside a large frame tent/small marquee.

The Vulcan over the spire.

Helen talking to a veteran and trying to get a signature on the paperwork...

The unveiling of the IBCC spire and memorial was 10 years ago today. The archive team didn't see much of the pomp, we stuck our heads out of our tent to watch the flypasts, but most of the time we were meeting veterans and their families. We took in 24 collections.

Happy 10th Anniversary! "Tornado Over the Tigris" first published in 2015 and still going strong 😁

Lake Vyrnwy...

Central vault

Notre Dame part 2

Notre Dame part 3

Notre Dame part 4

The restored inside of Notre Dame is spectacular

This window with two columns of different materials and colors caught my attention.💚🤎

Coming to a bookshop near you next March...

Cold War Conversations: Planning for a Hot War in the Cold War (330) Dan served in the War Plans office of the US Army VII Corps working on counterattack plans and reorganization of the US Army’s General Defence Plan.He describes the debriefing of a Polish Special...

From the archive - #Planning for a Hot War in the #ColdWar pod.fo/e/219e90

Cold War Conversations: Korea: War Without End (412) The Korean War is often called "the forgotten war"—a brutal, complex conflict that claimed millions of lives but has largely faded from public memory, particularly in the West. Yet its consequenc...

#OnThisDay in 1953, an armistice paused the Korean War, but peace remained elusive.

Listen why the #KoreanWar has been forgotten, why it mattered then, and why it still matters now.

With @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social & @ospreypublishing.bsky.social

pod.fo/e/2fe846

Cold War Conversations: BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War - Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany (362) BRIXMIS and its operations behind enemy lines continue to fascinate the listeners of Cold War Conversations. In August 2024 I was honoured to be invited to the National Army Museum in London to int...

From the archive - In August 2024 I was honoured to be invited to the National Army Museum in London to interview Andrew Long, the author of new book about #BRIXMIS in front of a large audience of veterans. pod.fo/e/2616c5

Published this month 10 years ago! 😁

Cold War Conversations: Korea: War Without End (412) The Korean War is often called "the forgotten war"—a brutal, complex conflict that claimed millions of lives but has largely faded from public memory, particularly in the West. Yet its consequenc...

Why the #KoreanWar has been forgotten, why it mattered then, and why it still matters now.

With #RobertLyman @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social & @ospreypublishing.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2fe846

I knew Dick Maydwell - a great chap!

The Yorkshire Dales...

In case y'all wanted to know what a Beaver looks like from the inside.

A surreal morning earlier this week in the Netherlands

Cold War Conversations: The Night a Nuclear Missile Accidentally Exploded: A Firsthand Account of Survival (411) In this gripping episode, we hear the harrowing account of Greg Devlin, a former US Air Force technician who barely survived a catastrophic explosion at a Titan II nuclear missile silo in 1980.He s...

LATEST EPISODE - The Night a #Nuclearmissile #Exploded: A Firsthand Account of #Survival

Listen here. pod.fo/e/2fa195

Out now...

On our way to sunny Spain! That's me in the driver's seat on our way to Torrejon, July 1988 😎

@michaelnbooks.bsky.social takes a look back at both the first Gulf War & the Balkans Conflict in this new book for @ospreypublishing.bsky.social excellent series. #histbookchat

Please find below a link to my book review.
historybookchat.blogspot.com/2025/06/raf-...

Today’s badge a Red Cross badge dated 1914-1919. #WW1 #FWW