JMcN
@jmcn.bsky.social
Books, motorcycles, and dog sitter. IC #36
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Been very busy planning series 4 today... We should be back in your ears by early January and boy do we have some great stuff lined up! Peenemunde, Master Bombers, bomb disposal in Hamburg, the Short Stirling, bombing tactics, Schweinfurt, Moose Sqn, Cold War Bombers & tons more!
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Been very busy planning series 4 today... We should be back in your ears by early January and boy do we have some great stuff lined up! Peenemunde, Master Bombers, bomb disposal in Hamburg, the Short Stirling, bombing tactics, Schweinfurt, Moose Sqn, Cold War Bombers & tons more!
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social about the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. What is the meaning of Thatcherism in the twenty-first century?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social about the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. What is the meaning of Thatcherism in the twenty-first century?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social about the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. What is the meaning of Thatcherism in the twenty-first century?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social about the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. What is the meaning of Thatcherism in the twenty-first century?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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At a loose end tomorrow? @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social book club is back for winter. From 8pm UK you can quiz myself and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social all about Ring of Fire! Email [email protected] for zoom logins
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
At a loose end tomorrow? @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social book club is back for winter. From 8pm UK you can quiz myself and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social all about Ring of Fire! Email [email protected] for zoom logins
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Got a few minutes to spare this weekend? Try our new podcast in which authors get 15 minutes to convince you that you need their book in your life! We’ll also hammer them with the meanest thing someone on the internet might say & they get to squash it!
@alexchurchill.bsky.social @boneyabroad.com
@alexchurchill.bsky.social @boneyabroad.com
The 15 Minute Book Club
Books Podcast · Updated twice weekly · We don't always have an hour or so to spare. In this new, short-form podcast, Alex and Matt interview an author, gameshow style, and they have fifteen minutes on...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Got a few minutes to spare this weekend? Try our new podcast in which authors get 15 minutes to convince you that you need their book in your life! We’ll also hammer them with the meanest thing someone on the internet might say & they get to squash it!
@alexchurchill.bsky.social @boneyabroad.com
@alexchurchill.bsky.social @boneyabroad.com
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Always a thrill & a joy to find my book on bookshop shelves!
This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂
📘📙📗📕📚😁
This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂
📘📙📗📕📚😁
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Always a thrill & a joy to find my book on bookshop shelves!
This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂
📘📙📗📕📚😁
This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂
📘📙📗📕📚😁
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The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 28, 2025
The frontline in Ukraine is not facing imminent collapse despite recent Russian gains and Kremlin assertions.
understandingwar.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
understandingwar.org/research/rus...
Excalibur
Without saying Lord of the Rings, name a fantasy film.
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Excalibur
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A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
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SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
SCOOP: For the Trump admin's Sept. 2 strike targeting 11 men on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs, SecDef Hegseth gave an order, officials say, to kill them all. When two men were still alive, orders were given to strike again, finishing them off.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Military law experts are broadly agreed that this was not a "privileged homicide," and therefore Hegseth faces the prospect of prosecution for murder and spending the rest of his life behind bars. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Pete Hegseth’s order to ‘kill everybody’ included alleged drug boat survivors: report
More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Military law experts are broadly agreed that this was not a "privileged homicide," and therefore Hegseth faces the prospect of prosecution for murder and spending the rest of his life behind bars. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
I suppose it would be irresponsible of me as an author if I didn’t tell everyone that USNI books are currently 50% off… including my latest, “Nothing Here Worth Dying For.”
Remember folks: A book always makes a great Christmas present!
www.usni.org/press/books?...
Remember folks: A book always makes a great Christmas present!
www.usni.org/press/books?...
Books
The U.S. Naval Institute provides an independent forum for those who seek to advance and strengthen the naval profession.
www.usni.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
If this is true, it’s a crime.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If this is true, it’s a crime.
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Today’s Substack features a guest piece from @boneyabroad.com achurchill.substack.com/p/guest-arti...
GUEST ARTICLE: The Halifax Disaster, 1917
I’ve wanted to put this story out there for a while, but sometimes, you just have to acknowledge that some people are better placed to do the job than you are.
achurchill.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Today’s Substack features a guest piece from @boneyabroad.com achurchill.substack.com/p/guest-arti...
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If any bibliophiles out there fancy bankrupting themselves, Yale University Press has a half-price sale this month. yalebooks.co.uk
Home - Yale University Press London
Welcome to the Yale University Press London home page: explore our books, meet our authors, find out about our publishing mission.
yalebooks.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If any bibliophiles out there fancy bankrupting themselves, Yale University Press has a half-price sale this month. yalebooks.co.uk
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🚨**READ ALL ABOUT IT!**
Yes, it's Montgomery as you've never seen him before.
Where else do you get THIS kind of news. It can only be the NOTW. Join @andyaitch.bsky.social & @merrynwalters.uk as we leap back to 23rd May, 1942
Yes, it's Montgomery as you've never seen him before.
Where else do you get THIS kind of news. It can only be the NOTW. Join @andyaitch.bsky.social & @merrynwalters.uk as we leap back to 23rd May, 1942
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🚨**READ ALL ABOUT IT!**
Yes, it's Montgomery as you've never seen him before.
Where else do you get THIS kind of news. It can only be the NOTW. Join @andyaitch.bsky.social & @merrynwalters.uk as we leap back to 23rd May, 1942
Yes, it's Montgomery as you've never seen him before.
Where else do you get THIS kind of news. It can only be the NOTW. Join @andyaitch.bsky.social & @merrynwalters.uk as we leap back to 23rd May, 1942
Another diverting pod from @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social and @newsofthewar.bsky.social. From Russian spies to a stout, if eye popping, defence of Dunkirk; it’s all there. No Op Dynamo, no Battle of Britain, no Overlord, no anything else.
open.spotify.com/episode/3TCV...
open.spotify.com/episode/3TCV...
News of the War - 23rd May 1942
open.spotify.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Another diverting pod from @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social and @newsofthewar.bsky.social. From Russian spies to a stout, if eye popping, defence of Dunkirk; it’s all there. No Op Dynamo, no Battle of Britain, no Overlord, no anything else.
open.spotify.com/episode/3TCV...
open.spotify.com/episode/3TCV...
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🎄✨Our Christmas page is officially LIVE and ready for you to browse! Click the lovely green image on our homepage to dive into all things festive.
Even better… buy 3 items and get a 4th FREE with code XMAS25 - plus some Christmas chocolate on us! 🍫🎁
✨http://foxlanebooks.co.uk/christmas-books
Even better… buy 3 items and get a 4th FREE with code XMAS25 - plus some Christmas chocolate on us! 🍫🎁
✨http://foxlanebooks.co.uk/christmas-books
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🎄✨Our Christmas page is officially LIVE and ready for you to browse! Click the lovely green image on our homepage to dive into all things festive.
Even better… buy 3 items and get a 4th FREE with code XMAS25 - plus some Christmas chocolate on us! 🍫🎁
✨http://foxlanebooks.co.uk/christmas-books
Even better… buy 3 items and get a 4th FREE with code XMAS25 - plus some Christmas chocolate on us! 🍫🎁
✨http://foxlanebooks.co.uk/christmas-books
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Fellows of the Society are elected for their 'original contribution to historical scholarship'.
Our new guide provides more on the many ways Fellows achieve this - with activities going well beyond publications bit.ly/48mpcJa We welcome Fellowship applications from historians of all kinds 1/2
Our new guide provides more on the many ways Fellows achieve this - with activities going well beyond publications bit.ly/48mpcJa We welcome Fellowship applications from historians of all kinds 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Fellows of the Society are elected for their 'original contribution to historical scholarship'.
Our new guide provides more on the many ways Fellows achieve this - with activities going well beyond publications bit.ly/48mpcJa We welcome Fellowship applications from historians of all kinds 1/2
Our new guide provides more on the many ways Fellows achieve this - with activities going well beyond publications bit.ly/48mpcJa We welcome Fellowship applications from historians of all kinds 1/2
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We’ve got 2 #Signed copies of The Guardians of Dreamdark: Windwitch by #LainiTaylor✨
A special collector’s edition featuring map endpapers and a gold foil hidden cover
Step into Dreamdark, a world of bright magic, fierce faeries, and looming danger…
foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page/p…#BookSky💙📚��
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We’ve got 2 #Signed copies of The Guardians of Dreamdark: Windwitch by #LainiTaylor✨
A special collector’s edition featuring map endpapers and a gold foil hidden cover
Step into Dreamdark, a world of bright magic, fierce faeries, and looming danger…
foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page/p…#BookSky💙📚��
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🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
In the latest Journey Through Time, David and Sarah share the stories of brave people who undertook the journey to freedom and those who helped them along the way, uncovering the incredible network of The Underground Railroad.
Listen now, link in the replies 👇
In the latest Journey Through Time, David and Sarah share the stories of brave people who undertook the journey to freedom and those who helped them along the way, uncovering the incredible network of The Underground Railroad.
Listen now, link in the replies 👇
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨
In the latest Journey Through Time, David and Sarah share the stories of brave people who undertook the journey to freedom and those who helped them along the way, uncovering the incredible network of The Underground Railroad.
Listen now, link in the replies 👇
In the latest Journey Through Time, David and Sarah share the stories of brave people who undertook the journey to freedom and those who helped them along the way, uncovering the incredible network of The Underground Railroad.
Listen now, link in the replies 👇
Workers, Students and Socialism
What remains of East German promises to Mozambique?
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM