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Review: Architectures of Violence – The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities – by Kate Ferguson

Wez G April 2, 2024 No Comments Arkan Arkan's Tigers bosnia Brendan Simms Burma civil war confloict Croatia genocide izetbegovic Kate Ferguson Kosovo Military milosevic organized crime paramilitary Politics Rohingya Rwanda serbia Serbophilia war Yogoslavia

I discovered this book at Chatham House library. The front cover image of Arkan with his trademark white tiger gave away a lot of the subject detail of the book. It focuses on the war of the former Yugoslavia. Later in the work we touch upon the mass atrocities in…

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Review: MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two – by Helen Fry

Wez G May 26, 2023 1 Comment #centuryofgaga 100th birthday 143 COastal COmmand 618 Squadron Alan Turing army Asia Belgium Bletchley Park Brexit Britain Burma Caldicot Caldicot Library Colditz Comet Line computers D-Day Dédée Enigma Code Esacape and Evasion Escape from Colditz Escape to Victory espionage France gadgets Gaga GCHQ Germany God Helen Fry HighFlight Holland Ian Fleming intelligence IS9 James Bond Japanese John Gillespie Magee Jr.jungle Kim Phily library Luftwaffe MI5 mi6 MI9 Military Naga Naga Hills Naga Queen Nazi Nazis Paris poem poetry POWs Q RAF Rat Lines Room 900 Royal Air Force secrecy secret secret service Sir Ian Fleming SOE South East Qasia spies spy United Kingdom veterans war war poem war poet war poetry wigwam William Gordon Gerrard World War 2 World War 3 WW2

I randomly found this book on the shelves of Caldicot library. I read a lot of books on U.K. Intelligence services: MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. During the war…. Mt grandfather (GaGa) was in 618 Squadron RAF and 143 Coastal Command. He didn’t really speak to me much about World War…

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