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1910s, Archives, Film, Periodicals

Eleven, Eleven, Eleven — I

This summary of an unreleased and untitled film is from the ‘Grave and Gay’ column of the Preston Herald for 7 December 1918: In this film a man dreams that England is under German rule, and various scenes are shown depicting the organised brutality of the Boche. But, in the dream, there is a movement […]

After 1950, Books, Contemporary, Film, Periodicals

Border patrol — II

[Cross-posted at Society for Military History Blog.] Previously I argued that two books by Frank Joseph, Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy’s Military Struggles from Africa and Western Europe to the Mediterranean and Soviet Union 1935-45 (Helion & Company, 2010) and The Axis Air Forces: Flying in Support of the German Luftwaffe (Praeger, 2011), were at the

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1910s, Art, Australia, Books, Ephemera, Film, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures

Fear, uncertainty, doubt — VI

It’s been more than two weeks since I’ve posted anything on my current mystery aeroplane research, but it’s not because I haven’t been working on it. In fact it is coming along pretty well. There are still some frustrating gaps in my understanding of the archival records, but the writing is coming along. I’ve written

1940s, After 1950, Books, Cold War, Film, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Reviews

Abolishing the Taboo

Brian Madison Jones. Abolishing the Taboo: Dwight D. Eisenhower and American Nuclear Doctrine, 1945-1961. (Solihull: Helion & Company, 2011). I found Brian Jones’s Abolishing the Taboo interesting for two reasons. Firstly, the subject matter: the Cold War fear of nuclear war was the successor to the interwar fear of strategic bombing. Secondly, it’s the book

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