…ring in the ‘new, improved’ enhanced BS model. Links working now, but (for instance) link to comments on one of AnyJazz’s pics still busted. Count Von Rosen had an interesting career, and his DC-2 was recently restored in Finland. IIRC, the MF-9B story was covered in an Air Enthusiast in some detail. Jerry Boucher The MFIs were known as the ‘Biafran Babies’. There are a few bits of a Swedish documentary about them here: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
…ght in the last decade or more I’ve never played, only read). In the first instance, all I actually want this game to be is an illustration of the knock-out blow theory, an alternative form of historical representation (if a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many is a game worth?) If all the game does is show whoever reads or plays it that a knock-out blow would have involved the aerial forces of one country flying over to the other’s ca…
…e touched on here sadly, just well-known data mis-represented instead. For instance, while Johns’ had Biggles undertaking numerous counter-espionage works on behalf of the British government, Biggles was from 1945 a member of the Metropolitan Police’s CID (even given as one of the book titles, too) no supra-national organisation, unless we are making the neophyte error of the nature of INTERPOL. The bad boys of the fifties and sixties were the com…
…Rob Langham Excellent article, thanks for sharing, a very interesting and enjoyable read. Also good to note about your book coming out in paperwork, should be able to afford a copy now with my next MA student loan instalement Brett Holman Thanks and I hope you enjoy the book — I hope you’ll have some change left over though! D:…
…need an ereader to read MOBI or EPUB files; there will be software you can install on your computer or tablet to do so, e.g. Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon’s Kindle app. Chris Going Brett As you are doubtless now aware, the London Review of Books has just devoted a two page review of ‘The Next War in the Air’ (they like it). So you’ll get a surge in UK sales here, I guess. The cover looks just fine -getting the bleed through dealt with was defin…
…p of coffee and an epic History Carnival. Don’t blame me. Blame Kos.] This installment of the History Carnival opens with Laura James’ brilliant post Brett Holman Hey cool, a trackback! My very first one. And from the History Carnival, no less. But for some reason WordPress has neglected to mention the author’s name or link to the originating post: Acephalous. How irritating. Acquisitions | Airminded […] Basil Collier. Heavenly Adventurer: Sefto…
…wker Hectors undertook supply drops to the surrounded Calais garrison, for instance) but remained based in the UK. More Defiant insights later! Brett Holman Oops then! Jonathan Waggoner Historically I believe Fighter command judged the Battle of Britain to have been over on September 16, 1940. But Churchill didn’t really consider it over until he was informed that operation Sea Lion had been called off by Hitler and the bomber squadron’s were tran…
…the Sino-Japanese War was framed in the West. In Capra’s Why We Fight, for instance, the Chinese are depicted as helpless, passive victims – objects of pity, but not emulation. The Spanish Republicans might not have been Churchill’s ideological cup of tea, but there was less question about their willingness to resist. Brett Holman That’s a fair point, but wasn’t there also a stereotype of the Chinese peasant as capable of patiently enduring crushi…
This has been all over the news here today, though I suspect interest is somewhat less outside Australia: the wreck of HMAS Sydney has been found. On 19 November 1941, Sydney was returning to Fremantle, Western Australia, after escorting a troopship north to Sunda Strait. It encountered the German commerce raider Kormoran somewhere out in the Indian Ocean, and a battle ensued. When the engagement broke off, both ships were mortally wounded. (Korm…
…nment. It was decided that Helgoland was essentially useless as a military installation – once war came it would be impossible to fortify it and if done prior to war it would sour relations. No win. Brett Holman Quite possibly, but I’m not really thinking of fortifications, but of a sound location or radar facility. Wednesday, 22 January 1913 | Airminded […] air vessels at least will shortly be established at Heligoland, 350 miles from the mouth o…
