HeyJaredAftermath by Keith Lowe
Weekly posts about the effects of war, from WWII to today. Wars don't just end. They have consequences.
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How a con-man became a WWII hero (opens the original)
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Sometimes the most unlikely people become heroes. Neapolitan history is full of such characters, from Masaniello to Maradonna, who just end up being the right person at the right time. This month’s podcast is about a man who found his true calling during the Second World War. Enzo Stimolo, like all Neapolitan heroes, started out as a fairly shady character before finding a brief moment of true glory - and then (probably) meeting a sticky end. This is the story of how it all happened.Enjoy!<p cla
The Sunset March (opens the original)
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This Sunday sees the anniversary of the Waal river crossing on 20 September 1944, during the doomed Operation Market Garden. Today, every day, this heroic action is commemorated by a “Sunset March” across the bridge. I wrote an article about this simple, moving ceremony back in March 2026, but it was for paid subscribers only. So today, in honour of the anniversary, I thought I would release it for everyone. I hope you enjoy it. And if you do, please share it with others and ask them to subscrib
Me and my medal! (opens the original)
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I was going to post a short essay this week, but I’ve changed my mind. I’ve won a major history prize, so I want to bask! Please forgive me. It’s not every day you get awarded a medal.On Wednesday evening I was asked to come down to the Royal United Services Institute in central London, where the Duke of Wellington himself presented me with my award. Then I had to give a speech. So I’m going to indulge myself and reproduce the speech below. If you can’t bear it, look away now. But before you rus
Schroedinger’s Tax Form (opens the original)
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I recently got commissioned by a New York publisher to write a new book about the war in Italy. Yay me! But that’s not the subject of this piece, so I’ll save it for another time.The contract they sent me was 37 pages of impenetrable legal gobbledegook, but I didn’t have to worry about it because, fortunately, I have a very good literary agent. Reading through and understanding these ever-expanding author contracts is so time consuming (and so boring) that it’s no wonder that agents’ commissions
The Fortunes of the Brave (opens the original)
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Today I want to tell the story of someone whose greatness was a combination of all three of these methods. He was an unassuming man whose main purpose in life was simply to have fun. But he was also, in the end, a genuine hero.Ian Oswald Liddell was awarded the Victoria Cross for one of the most insanely courageous acts of the Second World War. There must have been something in his genes, because his brother D
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