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Cuts to British Army training
I worked with Brigadier Ben Barry twice during my army career - we were commissioned into the same regiment - and have remained friends ever since. Indeed, it was Ben (though he didn’t know it then) who got me interested in military history...
Don’t join the Army...
For those who know me well, the idea that I might now be encouraging young men and women not to join the Armed Forces might sound that I had lost my marbles. I can assure you that is not the case. I am deadly serious. This government’s dete...
The Cockleshell Heroes
Some years ago I researched the story of the Cockleshell Heroes. The book was published as Operation Suicide.
Its an amazing story of grit and fortitude. Of the 12 men who set out to attack German ships in Bordeaux harbour, only two surviv...
Collapse
My review of Jonathan Fennell’s Collapse has appeared in the Aspects of History magazine today.
Buy it! It is very good.
You won’t be able to read this, so I’ve added it below.
Collapse – A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-19...
Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality
At a village near Kohima in May 1944, a young Naga boy named Zhovire witnessed an event that remained vivid in his memory for the rest of his life:
“I heard people shouting, ‘There’s a prisoner, a British soldier.’ I ran out to look at t...
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I was once a soldier. My degrees are in history, international affairs, war studies, military technology and the operational art of General Bill Slim, the latter being my PhD. www.robertlyman.com.
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