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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    The Voyage To Tsushima (opens the original)

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    The voyage of the Second Pacific Squadron took seven months, eighteen thousand miles and has always fascinated me. Courage; fatalism shown by the Russian crews - many were boys who had never seen the oceans before joining the Tsars Navy. “The ships were manned by mostly raw crews, many of whom had never sailed before and were averse to leaving home f… Read more

  2. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    Princess Noor Inayat Khan (opens the original)

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    ‘Madeleine’ - A most unlikely SOE operative and a marvelous one at that - Noor was born in Moscow. Her family left for England just before the outbreak of the First World War, imagine if she had been brought up Russian - They family moved to Paris in 1920 to a house in Paris donated to Noor’s father, a noted Sufi philosopher. Noor was ”quiet, shy, sensitive, and dreamy. After the death of her father in 1927, 13-year-old Noor took on the responsibility for her younger siblings from her grief-stri

  3. Issue · Sep 5, 2026

    Teruhiko Kobayashi (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    All Archives (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 6, 2026

    New York Times - August 5,2026 (opens the original)

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    Cost of Trump’s Namesake Warships Likely to Rise by 50 Percent or MorePresident Trump’s goal of building a “golden fleet” of 15 battleships could cost $275 billion, according to a government estimate.Listen · 5:44 minShare full article<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0b8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.a

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