David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

From the Liverpool Daily Post on the 11th (no paper on the 10th - Sunday)

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨 Roger Moorhouse joins us to reveal why the U-Boat War was nowhere near the close-run thing we’re told – by 1943 the tables had turned dramatically. 🎙️⚓️ 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/339dda 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... #WWII #NavalHistory #Podcast @wmcollinsbooks

“The apex of German scientific engineering on which they trusted their military OpSec on, Enigma, was broken by a group comprised of Jews, homosexuals and women” really weakens their argument.

Also they ran just incredibly awful commentary with incredibly shawty evidence (which I’m sure will become feature at CBS now). For example, the author of this piece claimed the Allies won WWII with inferior technology minus the atomic bomb lol

Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released in the UK on 6 November, preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...

I am being forced to read The Secret of Secrets for work by my "friends" and Dan Brown is so loudly and confidently wrong about everything and I want to tear my hair out.

This one might be of interest to #NavalHistory Bluesky. The Norwegian Coastal Administration has released an underwater 3D photo scan of the wreck of the German heavy cruiser Blücher, sunk in the Oslofjord in April 1940. Super cool! #ww2 #norway #blücher dykkerteknikk.nira.app/a/Ip_mJ3EFQK...

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted. von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

Sink the Baltic fleet, take Kaliningrad and then claim it was an accident due to Ukrainian EW interference.

Logistics is what allowed the 9th infantry divisions artillery train to travel 800 miles in 4 days and drop 7500 rounds of high explosive on the 10th Panzer Division in 6 hours at Kasserine pass. Germans later described as “a wall of fire” and “pure hell”

He wasn't even that hard to work with - long form answer if you're interested old.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Making us all work 40hrs in bullshit jobs is not just about capitalist profits, its about keeping us busy, distracted and lonely. #socialistsunday

Whenever people ask me my five ideal dinner guests living or dead I always say Luigi Mangione and then whichever four billionaires I'm most pissed off with.

#ResistanceRoots Zonia Baber was born on this day in 1862 in Kansas Township, Ill. Baber was a geographer and geologist who developed innovative teaching methods that emphasized experiential learning. She was also an activist who advocated for women’s rights and against Western imperialism. /1

I’m probably the last person on the planet to find out about this, but Pasquale serves hands down the best Italian meal I have ever had in London and many places in Italy. He also had our daughter in stitches, which isn’t an easy thing with a teenage girl @garius.bsky.social @andraswf.bsky.social

RW Wehraboos are always posting pictures of shiny Nazi shit like Tiger tanks and the Bismarck and never the actual backbone of the wartime Wehrmacht, wonder why

I don’t think I’ve seen a cleaner summation of the American strengths in WW2 that contributed to Allied victory.

Indeed, the demand for wheat was so great immediately after the war because of the need to feed Germany (among other former enemy nations) that Britain introduced bread rationing, something it had never had to do during the war itself.

(I spent way too much time digging this up, which just goes to show how far I'll go (which is to say, too far) for a bit) Everyone knows about Ea-nāṣir, of course, thanks to the clay tablets on which are written his customers' complaints. But not enough people know about Yaqqim-Addu. 1/

1/ it's wild to see (mostly) western leftists still romanticize the soviet union and uphold it as some gold standard of socialism, insisting that "the soviet union was never imperialist", when it absolutely was. so let's debunk that whole myth about soviet anti-imperialism -

On the Bayeux Tapestry, this New Yorker cover in 1944 following the Normandy landings.

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

Live your life so millions of your fellow citizens don't take to the streets to tell you to go fuck yourself on your birthday.

I love that the first thing Friedman does in discussing the "operational art" in the Soviet system is to point out that is was most useful for military leaders to discuss strategy (i.e. politics) under the cover of something not strategy.

Hastings and Normandy His views on the campaign have been discredited by historians but dominated the field for nearly three decades, so how come he continues to gain traction? /1 #WW2 #SWW #History

#NavalHistory 1 Warships of the former IJN used wooden decks. Of course, they were made of wood lined on iron decks. However, linoleum was used from the 1920s onwards. This was probably because the RN used a flooring material similar to linoleum called corticine (written corticene in the Navy).

This is a thread to gather some of the stuff I've done that's available online🧵

I think it’s forgotten now that the swift defeat of France in 1940 shocked the world. FDR was shocked. Stalin was shocked. The French Army was regarded as the strongest in the world and the French, for good reason, as hard as nails and natural warriors. Their endurance from 1914-18 was legend.

A fun article but one which 1) misunderstands the roots of the c16-18 Military Revolution, which lay in firepower and tactical change but not in muskets and the tercio but in artillery, trace italienne fortifications, and the lengthy campaigns and large armies required to wage war. These…. 1/3

People pinged me a few weeks ago to ask my opinion on the defences of Jackson Hole in The Last of Us S2E2. But they already know what I think. This town is an island in a hostile world but somehow it is ringed only by a single flimsy palisade! If you get turned into fungus here, that's on you

I want an #Andor spinoff which is just 10 episodes of Partagaz arguing about the ISB’s budget in a series of committee meetings.

I've a feeling that the British popular memory of the war completely underestimates the sheer horror and terror of the Blitz, and of the V weapons campaign and other aerial bombings.

The intellectuals of the western left are so ignorant… 🇺🇦 lost 16% of its population in WWII (🇷🇺 lost 12%) 4.5m Ukrainians were in the Red Army; ¼ were killed 2.2m Ukrainians were taken west as slave labourers 1.5m Ukrainian Jews died in the Shoah 150,000 were in 🇺🇦 ’s Soviet partisan forces 1️⃣/2

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Alright, @sarahebond.bsky.social in her cruelty has made me aware of this remarkably incompetent talk Malcolm Gladwell gave and so I am going to inflict it on all of you by going through all of the mistakes he makes here in the hope that none of you will ever take him seriously again. 1/

Me when I’m a 15th century sultanate envoy to Romania and I’m about to get impaled

I disagree that the view within Supermarina or across senior mil/pol leadership in general was that it 'made no difference'. In fact, one of the RM's objectives coming into the war was to try and engineer a situation of numerical superiority over the RN to allow the fleet to inflict a significant 1/

RIP to one of the greats

The Night of Taranto Good read on the topic of Operation JUDGMENT, the Royal Navy’s air attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto. Lots of media and original document quotations. To be enjoyed with a cup of tea or a shot of rum, depending on the time of day.

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

A great overview and read on Cold War space based IMINT and aircraft carriers. The images have the added benefit of showing the evolution in granularity as the KH series of platforms evolved. www.thespacereview.com/article/4828/1

Eight weeks ago, I jokingly imagined a podcast where scholars could (expertly) hate on historical figures. Almost 100,000 people thought it was a good idea. I am so incredibly excited to announce that the first episodes of my brand new show This Guy Sucked will be released March 20th!