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• 1000 tweets later

  5 February 2010 in Blogging, Pictures, Words

  Last August I took up Twitter. I’ve just reached a thousand tweets (or will have, when this post is auto-tweeted), so it seems like an appropriate time to reflect on how useful the whole thing is.
  I was initially sceptical, but I find that Twitter does complement blogging very well. It’s a good place to post [...]

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• The wind vs. the whirlwind

  2 February 2010 in 1940s, Plots, Videos

  It must be time for some plots. The data here is taken from Richard Overy, The Air War 1939-1945 (Washington: Potomac Books, 2005 [1980]), 120, and represents the bomb tonnage delivered between 1940 and 1945 by Germany on Britain (including V-weapons) in blue, and by Britain and the United States on Europe as a whole [...]

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• The trumpet calls

  1 February 2010 in Blogging, Ephemera, Pictures

  [Cross-posted at Cliopatria.]

  Airminded is hosting the next edition of the Military History Carnival on 15 February. Please send me suggestions for the best military history blogging since 17 January, either by email (bholman at airminded dot org), by web (here or here) or by twitter (@Airminded or tagged #mhc21). Thanks!
  Image source: Wikipedia.

  This work, unless otherwise [...]

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• Conwy and Caernarfon

  30 January 2010 in Pictures, Travel 2009

  This post relates to my trip to England and Wales in September 2009.

  Another day, another castle. But first …

  … I spent the morning in Conwy again, looking at two historic houses. The first was Plas Mawr. It doesn’t look like much, perhaps, but it is ‘Possibly the best preserved Elizabethan town house in Great [...]

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• A Japanese death ray?

  24 January 2010 in 1930s, 1940s, Books

  If anyone came close to creating a death ray weapon by the end of the Second World War, it was the Japanese army. It wouldn’t have helped them much, however, as they weren’t at war with rabbits. According to Richard Overy in The Air War 1939-1945 (Washington: Potomac Books, 2005 [1980]), 195:
  The lack of satisfactory [...]

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