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TV Presenter/Historian (FRHistS). MRes. That makes me sound like an adult. Which is a lie. I guess, come for those credentials, stay for the sarcastic, sweary version of history? 20th Century Military, royals, older wars boats and other rabbit holes.
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FREE FULL FEATURE: Allied Shame in Italy, 1944 (opens the original)
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Last week I led an in depth tour centered the four battles around Monte Cassino. (www.istoriatravel.org) At the end of it, because I’m different, I took my group across to the little town of Sant’Andrea to cover Operation Diadem. We traced the advance of the First Free French Division and talked about how the French corps, serving within Mark Clark’s 5th Army, deserved much of the credit for the breakout towards Rome. I ended coverage of that fourth and final battle on a bend in the road, overlo
ARTICLE: Aftermath at Cassino, 1944 (opens the original)
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I’ve spent the last few days guiding a group through an intense look at the fighting around Monte Cassino. If ou scroll down, you’ll find some photographs of the things we’ve been scampering about looking at but today, I thought I would bring to you a translation from an account entitled Bombs, Malaria… and Courage. Fred Vittiglio was thirteen years old in 1944:Cassino, my city; Montecassino, a monument of art and history; the Rapido, a noble and tranquil river; Mount Cairo, the watchtower of th
FREE ARTICLE: Postcards From France (opens the original)
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Another trip, more recce work. And some fun stuff in between. Here are some highlights for those with itchy feet who are missing the sun…<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8MGs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q
ARTICLE: Patients Arrive, Le Touquet, 1914 (opens the original)
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Last week I looked at what it was like to set up a military hospital in a strange land, through the eyes of Dr. Frederick McKelvey Bell. One of the first Canadians to arrive at the front, in 1917 he wrote a lightly fictionalised account of his work: The First Canadians in France: The Chronicle of a Military Hospital in the War Zone. He explained how his unit converted a Le Touquet Hotel into a sanitary, well-equipped surgical hospital. You can read about that here:Today, I’ll let him explain how
ARTICLE: The First Canadians in France, 1914 (opens the original)
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Today I thought I’d ask the question, what’s it like to set up a military hospital and what does it take to get it up and running? Enter Frederick McKelvey Bell, doctor, surgeon, author, army officer and civil servant. Born in Ontario and 36 when the First World War broke out, he was very much interested in public health, social medicine and helping the poor. Though he set up a practice in Ottawa, he was a militia man, and so in August 1914 he volunteered to go to Europe with the Canadian Expedi
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