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Peter Edmonds
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My 2 favourite books are "The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow and "A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne. Keen interest in history of Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Falklands war and the battle of Rourke's Drift.
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After that, the classic in English thanks to a friend's recent trip to Vietnam.
Memoirs Of War: Dien Bien Phu by General Vo Nguyen Giap The Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, with the killing or capturing of over 16,000 enemy forces, sealed the defeat of French colonialism in Indochina. Complete with detailed accounts, maps, and photos, Giap's memoirs depicts concretely how a small and weak nation can overcome a stronger force. The book emphasizes the importance of creativity, intelligence, and superior strategy based on support from the entire nation/people (the alliance of oppressed classes) in winning war. Publisher: The GIOI Publishers Year: 2014 Format: Paperback Pages: 303 ISBN13: 9786047703951
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Will get to it next. Then the next on the list is this.
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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I bet she didn't tell them she was elected to the Senate with a primary vote of 0.88%
Table from https://results.aec.gov.au/27966/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefs-27966-QLD.htm showing Pauline Hanson polling 0.88% of the primary vote at the 2022 Federal election.
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Le Putsch d'Alger by Maurice Vaïsse. Radio-Algiers, April 22, 1961: “This is Radio France. The army has taken control of Algeria and the Sahara…” This is the beginning of the generals’ putsch, and of the gripping account given by Maurice Vaïsse in this book. The event is brief: four days, five nights. But it points to a longer period: that of the simmering crisis within the army, which led to this pivotal episode of the Algerian War, and also to its consequences. After 1940, the distinction between the military and the political became blurred: the Second World War and the conflicts of decolonization reversed these roles, following repeated crises pitting the army against the nation, culminating in the putsch. Why did it fail? What were its lasting effects? The aim of this book is to assess the significance of the event and to place it within the context of French and international history. Maurice Vaïsse here revisits an investigation he began forty years ago, this time with the benefit of previously inaccessible archives. His book contains both facts and rigorous analysis. One also perceives the emotion of a man intimately familiar with Algeria—he was born there and was there in 1961—and whose heart seems to catch in his throat at this tragedy. Through documents and testimonies, he restores the human dimension of the putsch, a constant presence: in the attitude and words of General de Gaulle, the expectations of the people, the motivations and behavior of the general officers—along with the almost tragic dimension of the conflict between duty and loyalty, and the anxieties surrounding "honor." A definitive work on the putsch and on de Gaulle.
November 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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The National party are a bunch of morons and Bridget McKenzie is a fucking clown.
Newspoll graphic from The Australian newspaper published 2nd November 2025 showing LNP primary vote at 24 percent.
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Smashed this loh bak and char keow teow at Sambal Kampung in Maribyrnong. Food is consistently good here.
Char keow teow closeup Char keow teow Loh bak
October 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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The British state will never allow itself to be held accountable for the crimes it has committed.
Front page of the Derry Journal on the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Is this guy on the job?
Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, sporting his Herbert Johnson trilby, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Clouseau
October 20, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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"For a Stonger Mirani".

🤣🤣🤣 🤡🤡🤡
Campbell Newman and assorted LNP idiots standing in front of a sign with the slogan "For a Stonger Mirani".
October 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Miss 19 made her cosplay debut with @whereisdanielle.bsky.social at #PAXAUS Cosplay Iron Chef panel
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October 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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"there are many in the party who are hopeful Amelia Hamer will throw her hat into the ring. As the Liberal candidate in Kooyong at the 2025 federal election, Hamer won several booths that overlap with Malvern."

Go on, do it.
Amelia Hamer suddenly realising she's made a terrible mistake.
October 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Amelia Hamer regretting her choices in life
September 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Amelia Hamer also realising she's made a terrible mistake
September 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Freya Leach realising she's made a terrible mistake.
September 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I regret to report that I have fallen down the wormhole that is the battle of Khe Sahn.
Last Stand at Khe Sanh cover art Last Stand at Khe Sanh The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam By Gregg Jones Narrated by William Hughes 4.7 84 ratings A 30-day trial plus your first audiobook free. 1 credit/month after trial—to buy any title you like, yours to keep. Listen all you want to a selection of thousands of Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. $16.45 a month after 30 day trial. Cancel anytime. About this listen The vivid, fast-paced account of the siege of Khe Sanh told through the eyes of the men who lived it. For seventy-seven days in 1968, amid fears that America faced its own disastrous Dien Bien Phu, six thousand US Marines held off thirty thousand North Vietnamese Army regulars at the remote mountain stronghold called Khe Sanh. It was the biggest battle of the Vietnam War, with sharp ground engagements, devastating artillery duels, and massive US air strikes. After several weeks of heroic defense, the besieged Americans struck back in a series of bold assaults, and the North Vietnamese withdrew with heavy losses. Last Stand at Khe Sanh is the vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic confrontation as experienced by the men who were there: Marine riflemen and grenadiers, artillery and air observers, platoon leaders and company commanders, Navy corpsmen and helicopter pilots, and a plucky band of US Army Special Forces. Based on extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with participants, Last Stand at Khe Sanh captures the courage and camaraderie of the defenders and delivers the fullest account yet of this epic battle. ©2014 Gregg Jones (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
September 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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"We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This" is a quote from the Netflix sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. The quote originates from a sketch where an unnamed man in a hot dog costume tries to pretend he is not the one who has crashed a hot dog-shaped car. The image of the man in the costume was widely used as a reaction image on Twitter and other websites in 2020 and early 2021, typically in response to complaints about problems from the people responsible for those problems.
September 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Latest addition to the collection.

"La bataille de Dien Bien Phu: 13 mars-7 mai 1954" by Pierre Journoud. ISBN 978-2958399085 French edition.

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Rear cover of the book "La bataille de Dien Bien Phu: 13 mars-7 mai 1954" by Pierre Journoud. ISBN 978-2958399085 French edition. Using 165 images from French army archives, Pierre Journoud tells the story of the battle of Dien Bien Phu. More specifically, he looks back at the origins of the battle and some of the key episodes of the last major confrontation of the Indochina War, such as Operation Castor (the dropping of Lieutenant-Colonel Bigeard's paratroopers into the Dien Bien Phu basin), the installation of the soldiers in the camp, life in the trenches, the increasingly difficult reconnaissance operations, the confrontation with the Viet Minh, which began on 13 March 1954, and so on. https://amzn.asia/d/gMKAxfv Front cover of the book "La bataille de Dien Bien Phu: 13 mars-7 mai 1954" by Pierre Journoud. ISBN 978-2958399085 French edition. Using 165 images from French army archives, Pierre Journoud tells the story of the battle of Dien Bien Phu. More specifically, he looks back at the origins of the battle and some of the key episodes of the last major confrontation of the Indochina War, such as Operation Castor (the dropping of Lieutenant-Colonel Bigeard's paratroopers into the Dien Bien Phu basin), the installation of the soldiers in the camp, life in the trenches, the increasingly difficult reconnaissance operations, the confrontation with the Viet Minh, which began on 13 March 1954, and so on. https://amzn.asia/d/gMKAxfv
August 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Queensland LNP brains trust hard at work again.
A meme image of Principal Skinner from The Simpsons with the top panel displaying the caption "Springborg: I thought all of Australia was like Queensland" and the bottom panel captioned "Springborg again: Let's just pretend we won, maybe no-one will notice".
August 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Bro is just mad that he can't get laid
James Marriot, columnist for the Times, disappointed that he'll never get to sleep with Tia Billinger, so nobody else should either.
August 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Fettuccini carbonara cooked perfectly by my amazing wife!
Fettuccini carbonara cooked perfectly by my amazing wife!
July 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy. George Orwell
July 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Roast beef for dinner, cooked perfectly by my amazing wife.
Sliced roast beef, potatoes and carrots on a plate. Close up of roast beef slices
June 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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This might help as a starting point
Photo of the parliamentary National Party after the 1987 Federal election. Taken from "Joh for PM" by Paul Davey
June 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Don't leave home without it
A can of Tactical Bacon from https://cmmg.com/tactical-bacon
June 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Pleased to report I now own a copy of THE HARDEST PLACE by @wesleymorgan.bsky.social
The Hardest Place The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley By Wesley Morgan ISBN 9780812985221 About The Hardest Place COLBY AWARD WINNER • “One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.”—Foreign Policy “A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.”—Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war. Drawing on reporting trips, hundreds of interviews, and documentary research, Wesley Morgan reveals the history of the war in this iconic region, captures the culture and reality of the conflict through both American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing missteps—some kept secret from even the troops fighting there—that doomed the American mission. The Hardest Place is the story of one of the twenty-first century’s most unforgiving battlefields and a portrait of the American military that fought there.
May 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM