Clarkesworld 234; Interzone 304 #FridayReads
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Brett Holman
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Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air).
At Airminded: History has taught us nothing https://airminded.org/2026/03/06/history-has-taught-us-nothing/
History has taught us nothing
Content warning: descriptions of death and mutilation. The opening paragraph of the current draft of my next book, about one day over a century ago: Shortly before midday on 13 June 1917, Upper North Street School in Poplar was hit by a single bomb dropped from a German aeroplane. It killed eighteen pupils, sixteen of [...]
Alan Allport, Advance Britannia: How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945; Jerry White, Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War #FridayReads
Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War #FridayReads
Karl Bell, The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic; Mike Dash, Batavia’s Graveyard #FridayReads
Adam Claasen, Grid: The Life and Times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell; Clarkesworld 223; HyphenPunk 6 #FridayReads
Paul J McAuley, The Quiet War; James Pugh, The Royal Flying Corps, the Western Front and the Control of the Air, 1914-1918 #FridayReads
Minoo Dinshaw, Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War #FridayReads
At Airminded: Print the Legend: the Red Baron and friends https://airminded.org/2026/01/22/print-the-legend-the-red-baron-and-friends/
Print the Legend: the Red Baron and friends
Registrations are now open for Print the Legend, the next Aviation Cultures Spotlight event, which will be held online across 27 and 28 February 2026 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time; correct for your own timezone). This is a free event, but you do need to register beforehand. Print the Legend promises to be both fun and [...]
Clarkesworld 232; Jonathan Healey, The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642; HyphenPunk 5 #FridayReads