Germany just announced it will deliver an additional Patriot system to Ukraine.

Good… still 6 to go !

Come on Greece, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Romania !

That sort of afternoon that induces one to show off one's yachtitecture.

🧐🧐🧐 Indeed

Merci!

My enormous thanks and gratitude to A. BRGLL 🎲 - your jeu de guerre guy for his enthusiastic, loyal and patient translation of my Sand and Steel into the French edition - De Sable et d'Acier. Available from all the usual suspects on 26 April.

Mes immenses remerciements et gratitude à A. BRGLL 🎲 - your jeu de guerre guy pour sa…

Kevin Getz Who could it be? The tension is unbearable. Surely it’s not Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine - unless he has a white cat?

True that Labour generally has a good record on UK Defence, Foote and Corbyn excepted, but an increase to 2.5% - when?
Like the pre-1914 cry of 'We want 8 [dreadnoughts] and we won't wait', we need 3% now...
forces.net/nuclear/labour…

All new episodes of #MysteriesoftheAbandoned with Past Preservers experts Alicia, Lynette & Dominic on the Science Channel !

Unpublished memoirs of a German artillery Oberleutnant who served on the Western Front from the first to the final day of #ww1 . Nearly 600 pages, maps and additional materials. All written down and compiled between 1928 and 1932 using fountain pen and typewriter.

Beautifully…

Good luck!

Come on everyone, Stephen Fisher and me, it’s the best pairing since Butch met Sundance and said “hey do you like banks, trains, money and horses?”

You KNOW you want to! Amazon

Oops! And Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine of course!

Congratulations Nick! Go forth and buy this people, rarely has a D-Day anniversary been gifted with so many valuable new tomes.

My African adventure is finally over, and I return home to find this waiting for me 🤩🤩🤩

Franklin Delano Roosevelt died 79 years ago today. He is the only American president who truly stands as a peer of Abraham Lincoln. He was a titanic figure, arguably the most important human being of the 20th century because he was the greatest champion for freedom in an era…

12 April 1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage (aged 63). He’s regarded as one of America’s greatest presidents, introducing the New Deal, winning a record four consecutive Presidential Elections and leading the US to victory in WW2.

Franklin Roosevelt 🇺🇸 died #OTD 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia. His last known photograph is below. He was sitting for a painting at the time of his death

Harry Truman 🇺🇸 was sworn in as President. Record of the event was taken by the White House Chief Usher (below)

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12 April 1945: President Franklin D. #Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 3:35 pm. Vice President Harry #Truman is sworn in. FDR dies near the end of World War II, which ended in Europe on May 8 and August 14 in the Pacific. #OTD #WW2 #FDR #ad amzn.to/2y40vUr

Video with lasers in it! 🫡

'Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.'

Marie Curie
Photo by Édouard Boubat