Bart Prinsen
@barticus12.bsky.social
Redacteur radio en televisie NTR, Bunnik, - leest een gedicht, kraakt een noot
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If you look at Andrew Roberts's "Eminent Churchillians" (now 30 years old) in his chapter trashing Mountbatten he rather suggests the poor planning was just another example of his general incompetence.
August 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
If you look at Andrew Roberts's "Eminent Churchillians" (now 30 years old) in his chapter trashing Mountbatten he rather suggests the poor planning was just another example of his general incompetence.
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Eventually, most people agreed that the whole thing had been a bad idea, but a question remained: had the Telegraph, of all newspapers, passed secrets to the enemy via a crossword? Intelligence officer (and son of John ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ Buchan) Lord Tweedsmuir was asked to investigate...
August 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Eventually, most people agreed that the whole thing had been a bad idea, but a question remained: had the Telegraph, of all newspapers, passed secrets to the enemy via a crossword? Intelligence officer (and son of John ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ Buchan) Lord Tweedsmuir was asked to investigate...
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The raid was such a disaster, the 5,000 Canadian troops involved suffered 3,367 casualties (an absurdly high rate of 68%) – 907 of them killed (roughly one every 35 seconds for nine hours). The Germans were apparently so bewildered that they asked why it had happened
August 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The raid was such a disaster, the 5,000 Canadian troops involved suffered 3,367 casualties (an absurdly high rate of 68%) – 907 of them killed (roughly one every 35 seconds for nine hours). The Germans were apparently so bewildered that they asked why it had happened
Kostelijk gesprek over een molotov in een kinderwagen
January 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Kostelijk gesprek over een molotov in een kinderwagen