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Writer/producer ex BBC, C4, Brook Lapping, Nutopia & ABC 🇦🇺. Books on WW2, Trafalgar & Diana POW. My new book 1945 The Reckoning now on sale in 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿& 🇮🇳 vAlso the host of scandalous @MongersPodcast.bsky.social on YouTube & all audio apps.
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A very good book.
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Well at least the singing should be entertaining.
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A provocative slide from the powerpoint.
It's going to be a lively session I think.
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But it won't all be so serious.
For example Rob has agreed to sing a rather rude sAustralian Army song with me, so if you are coming maybe pack your earplugs!
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My father just missed out on Malaya, for whish he was truly grateful. The truly scandalous story of UK nuclear testing in Australia is one that's very under-told, in both the UK and Oz. I know as I tried and failed to get a film (working title 'Blowing Up Australia') made for many years.
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Among much more, she was the only female member of Poland’s elite special forces, the Cichociemni or ‘Silent Unseen’
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Oh and we will be changing the cover image tomorrow (Monday) because I don't think those words are totally accurate!
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Thanks Mark! We came back to the very same place we had our honeymoon too - Corfu
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Tho to be fair Gill is excellent too youtu.be/mHFvqgl8Ivc?...
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Also available here and on all audio apps podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Thanks so much Rick (you might be the first Canadian to read it...well at least in Canada) and do let me know what you think - 'warts and all'.
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Wow
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Sadly not Rick tho the kindle and audible versions should be easily available via the UK or Australian Amazon sites. Happy to mail one to you…
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Many many thanks for this Matt. And if you have not already shared your opinion with Amazon reviews then please do!!
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Other naughty or not so naughty husbands are available
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Many thanks for this
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Wonderful photo and how remarkable it must have been to take to the air then, just a decade or so into the age of powered flight.
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Hope to see you all there
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And for mid level management consultants from the mid 1990s
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Just so!
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Backstory here x.com/philmcraig/s...
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One reason I think we need to know stories like this - apart from a desire for history ‘warts and all’ - is that formerly colonised people remember them v well and it affects their views of the UK to this day. Surabaya is commemorated in Indonesia as a National Holiday for example.
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From the intro
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VEDAY80 was great - let's celebrate that victory over evil. But as 2025 progresses there are other anniversaries, some after the formal end of WW2. These stories are darker and more ambiguous and do not sit easily with the way we like to remember WW2 here. So I wanted to write about them too!
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Hurrah! And if you want a signed one I can probably do that and post it for less than the price they charge at Waterstones.
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Hope so! I discussed it last week with Saul David on his Battleground podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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Here’s one!