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He has led tours to the Crimea, Dublin, Italy and Normandy. He is now developing his expertise in the Napoleonic era. He has a particular interest in understanding how and why decisions were made; the impact of doctrine, terrain and organisational culture; as well as trying to relate the ...
He has a keen interest in military history and is widely read. In particular, he enjoys visiting battlefields and has dragged his long-suffering wife over many of them. (Though still happily married she now refuses to follow him anymore.) He has led tours to the Crimea, Dublin, Italy and...
Parizhskava Kommuna would carry out a number of naval gunfire support missions against Axis targets in the Crimea in 1941 and 1942 but thereafter saw no further action as she was judged to be too vulnerable to German air attack. Moving to the safety of Poti in Georgia she reverted to her...
of the IL-2: Great Battles series. Each individual game comes with its own map and self-contained set of bombers and fighters. You only have to buy one of these packages to have a ‘complete’ experience, using the eight aircraft of that module. From 1941 to 1945, from Crimea to ...
take the whole of Ukraine is confirmed in its first forays into the country. The initial assault was a four-pronged attack, one thrust from the east, two from the north and one from the south via Crimea. The two northern prongs were directed at the center of Ukraine and its capital, ...
18 May 1944 The deportation of Crimean Tatars began. 19 Jul 1944 Soviet NKVD troops allegedly murdered entire inhabitants of a number of villages on the Arabit Spit in eastern Krym (Crimea), Russia; the main ethnicity of those villages was Crimean Tatar. 20 Oct 1944 The Soviet Union ordered...
He has led tours to the Crimea, Dublin, Italy and Normandy. He is now developing his expertise in the Napoleonic era. He has a particular interest in understanding how and why decisions were made; the impact of doctrine, terrain and organisational culture; as well as trying to relate the ...