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Merryn

@merrynwalters.uk

Writer. Excitable. 📗FRGS Getting lost on purpose. ツ https://linktr.ee/merrynwalters

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Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · last mo.

I confess, I have a thing for endpaper maps. And as I’m re-reading Alan Moorehead’s White Nile for the umpteenth time - I’m minded, there’s still a book worth writing on John Hannington Speke.

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Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · last mo.

Waiting for the washing machine. Idling through the back bookcase. Picked out ‘The Blunted Sword’ - David Divine - 1964 - and never made it past the first page. 😞 “It is a tragedy of our time that it appears in the highest degree improbable that it can succeed in its intention”

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Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · 2mo ago

On @newsofthewar.bsky.social, we've revelled in stories that aren't well known, 1939-45. We were keen to do a VC-special. But when @andyaitch.bsky.social realised he'd got unseen film of Ian Liddell VC - that was something else.

Andy@andyaitch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here it is. The found footage of Ian Liddell VC. As far as I know this footage has NEVER been seen publicly before. Filmed on the 7/4/45, 4 days after the action on the bridge, and 2 weeks before he was killed. He was called the officer that never lost his temper, I think you can see that here.

Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · 3mo ago

This week, It was the anniversary of T E Lawrence's untimely demise. Left a few desert blooms for him, not so long ago. The marker where he fell nearby was looking rough, but the cemetery is kept tidy.

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Ammonyte@ammonyte.com · 5mo ago

pca.st/episode/5a9f... Pulled up short by the story of Padre Perry. My Uncle landed with 6th Airborne and was wounded on d-day. Aid station he was taken to came under attack. Survived, RTU only to die April 10 1945. @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social @newsofthewar.bsky.social

News of the War - 20th June 1944

"News of The War" – EPSOM. No getting round it, he's off. She's catching up. And then there's D-Day, and pipers, and sad stories, and mad stories - THE RABBIT CLUB - and news of V1s and V2s ... it's…

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Andy@andyaitch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This GC blew me away. I cannot fathom the selflessness of Rev Herbert Pugh, who went down with the ship HMT Anselm. An interesting aside, Anselm was sunk by U96, made famous by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of Das Boot. Buchheim joined the boat a few months after Anselm. linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar

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News Of The War Pod@newsofthewar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

At this point, in this week's #NewsoftheWar special, if you don't have something in your eye ... Whatever else is happening, it's the actions of men like Rev Herbert Pugh that give us a reality check. This. THIS, is courage

Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · 6mo ago

Apropos the recent @WeHaveWaysPod series, the film of Sink the Bismarck is a constant, smashing reminder of men and map rooms. Affinity with the situation at a distance, decision-making in context, correlation on a small scale and horrendous decisions. Maps, eh.

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Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · 6mo ago

Held this map for real yesterday, and was totally thrown by it. Soviet gulag network, as experienced by two Polish officers: Sylvester Mora and Pierre Zwierniak. Included in a book of first-hand accounts ~ SprawiedliwośćSowiecka ~ published in 1945.

Map of Gulag network, published in 'SprawiedliwośćSowiecka' ~ Rome 1945 (later as ‘La Justice Sovietique’ and ‘Giustizia Sovietica’. Mora and Zwierniak were pseudonyms for S. Starzewski and Kazimierz Zamorski.
Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · 6mo ago

If I won the lottery, there would be signs. One of those signs would be a Bellerby Globe, with WW2 campaigns. Just puttin' that out there. In the cosmos, as it were. [Note to self: also buy lottery ticket.]

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Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · 6mo ago

Day of days. Below, part of the map approved by SS-Sturmbannführer Max Jesuiter, Chief of Staff, Warsaw SS - the basis on which boundaries for the ghetto were agreed.

Map extract from the collection held by Harrie Teunissen.
JMcN@jmcn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Another jam packed pod from @merrynwalters.uk and @andyaitch.bsky.social. Monkeys and school shoes, or the lack thereof. Shoes that is, not monkeys. As an aside I recall @spitfirefilly.bsky.social and @danellin.bsky.social did a presentation on GOMORRAH at WHWFV or F. Grim stuff.

News Of The War Pod@newsofthewar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨New episode of #NewsoftheWar?! Yes please! This week, the burning issue is, how d'you pronounce a short word like 'Foggia' ~ and if THAT doesn't give you an ear worm, then wait til you hear what else was happening on 28th September 1943... @andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk

Merryn@merrynwalters.uk · 7mo ago

I am genuinely intrigued, and keen to monitor the way in which future historians handle this travesty of recollection and tragedy of public, cognitive decline. This chapter’s going to be called “When America Played Its Worst Trump Card.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."