If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE Frontispiece from Captain Duncan Guthrie's Jungle Diary Very often, on the TV and in books, the jungle conditions of Burma are given prominence for being so inhospitable. ... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE This post follows on from Mahout 1 A Second World War Parachutist: Credit here After Sunil Datta Gupta (SDG) landed in June 1943, he was supposed... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE The work of Force 136 in Burma was not all about training Karens and Kachins to fight as guerrillas. In an earlier blog post, the story... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE What follows is a transcription from the original found in the National Archives. I have made no changes from the original except to add in square... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE From The Royal Indian Navy, 1939-45, part of The Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War, taken from a blog by @GibbinsDavid What follows... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE 'It was Dunkirk and the summer of 1940 repeating itself, but instead of the R.A.F. and the Battle of Britain the monsoon and the Assam mountain... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE The 'Panda' Li Jui, TNA, HS 1/6 Li Jui was a Chinese agent who was parachuted into Burma on 29 June 1944. Li Jui’s operation... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE Lysander over the Burmese jungle, photograph courtesy of Simon Leney, W/T Sergeant Leney's son: Operation Character, 1945. The Lysander, or 'Lizzie', is well known for its... Continue Reading →
Thesis to Book #thesistobook What Have I learnt About Publishing So Far? Have a look at this blog post by @thomsonpat who has more advice than me. @annerhanley has also written an excellent couple of blog posts about publishing her PhD... Continue Reading →
As part of my Easter break, I travelled up to Northumberland this year (2017). Whilst there, I was told by the friends we stayed with that a little town called Craster sold the best kippers in probably the whole world. I... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE The thing with the SOE files at Kew (HS series) is that you never know what you are going to get. This is particularly the case... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE Paper given at a Decolonisation Workshop convened by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 10 March 2017. http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/6749 Twitter: @ICwS_SAS ‘The Special Operations Executive and the... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE Professor Richard Aldrich wrote: ‘During 1948 and 1949, in Malaya and Burma, the painful aftermath of guerrilla tactics employed against the Japanese became all too apparent... Continue Reading →
On 26/11/16, the keynote speaker at the BCMH New Research in Military History Conference, Professor Charles Esdaile, reflected upon the career of a military historian. Here is a sample of the conversation he provoked on Twitter: Catherine Fletcher @cath_fletcher Nov... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE Paper presented at the Institute of Historical Research, at the 7th conference for New Research in Military History. Convened by Dr. Matthew Ford @warmatters (University of... Continue Reading →
If you like what you see on my website consider buying my book HERE Below is the blog post related to a lecture entitled Burma 1942: SOE's Role in 'Defeat into Victory' that I gave at the Joint Services Command and... Continue Reading →
The Special Operations Executive in Burma 1941-1945 