Greg Grandin, America, América: A New History of the New World #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).
@jondresner experience winning over youth
Clarkesworld 234; Interzone 304 #FridayReads
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