Clive Holden
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Defence heritage historian, author, researcher, & history book lover. Chair of the Kent Defence Research Group 🇬🇧🏴
A meticulously detailed account of the thousands of landing ships and landing craft of various types, and their brave crews, that made such an enormous contribution to the success of the D-Day landings.
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March 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A meticulously detailed account of the thousands of landing ships and landing craft of various types, and their brave crews, that made such an enormous contribution to the success of the D-Day landings.
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March 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A fascinating account of the post-WW2 British occupation of Germany and the challenges, successes and failings that were involved in the enormous task of building democracy from the ruins of Hitler’s Reich.
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March 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A fascinating account of the post-WW2 British occupation of Germany and the challenges, successes and failings that were involved in the enormous task of building democracy from the ruins of Hitler’s Reich.
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March 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A masterful account of the brutal and bloody battles for the Anzio beachhead and assaults on Monte Cassino that led to the eventual liberation of Rome
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February 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A masterful account of the brutal and bloody battles for the Anzio beachhead and assaults on Monte Cassino that led to the eventual liberation of Rome
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February 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This was a superb read. Dan Jones really brings the Middle Ages to life in this powerful and fascinating story of the life and times of England’s greatest warrior monarch
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February 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This was a superb read. Dan Jones really brings the Middle Ages to life in this powerful and fascinating story of the life and times of England’s greatest warrior monarch
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Today’s job at Wanstone Battery near Dover was to prepare the broken brickwork on the magazines ready for the brickie to repair
February 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today’s job at Wanstone Battery near Dover was to prepare the broken brickwork on the magazines ready for the brickie to repair
A fascinating book about those friends who stayed loyal to Churchill throughout his ‘Wilderness Years’ and went on to serve in his wartime government as some of his closest but sometimes very dubious advisors.
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February 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A fascinating book about those friends who stayed loyal to Churchill throughout his ‘Wilderness Years’ and went on to serve in his wartime government as some of his closest but sometimes very dubious advisors.
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February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
February 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This was an exceptional read. The incredible story of four extraordinary and very brave men who fought together in various theatres in WW2 and went on to serve their country officially and unofficially in some very dangerous situations for most of the Cold War War
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January 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This was an exceptional read. The incredible story of four extraordinary and very brave men who fought together in various theatres in WW2 and went on to serve their country officially and unofficially in some very dangerous situations for most of the Cold War War
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January 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
A misleading main title as the book is actually about both the 1944 ‘Market Garden’ and the 1945 ‘ Varsity Plunder’ Allied operations to cross the Rhine. The former a famous failure, the latter a great success. An insightful and detailed account of both operations
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January 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A misleading main title as the book is actually about both the 1944 ‘Market Garden’ and the 1945 ‘ Varsity Plunder’ Allied operations to cross the Rhine. The former a famous failure, the latter a great success. An insightful and detailed account of both operations
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January 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A fascinating, hereto untold story of the railway workers & engineers that paid such a huge part in ensuring the Allied forces could maintain their drive through France and on into the heart of the Nazi Reich after the Normandy landings in 1944.
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January 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A fascinating, hereto untold story of the railway workers & engineers that paid such a huge part in ensuring the Allied forces could maintain their drive through France and on into the heart of the Nazi Reich after the Normandy landings in 1944.
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January 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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January 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A fascinating & well researched account of the brutal & bloody Russian Civil War and the well intentioned but misguided interventions by the Allied powers that ended in such abject failure.
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January 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A fascinating & well researched account of the brutal & bloody Russian Civil War and the well intentioned but misguided interventions by the Allied powers that ended in such abject failure.
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December 30, 2024 at 9:32 PM
