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In terms of recent #GreatWar books, this is really good on the Central Powers at war. The chapters on Brest-Litovsk & the Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and Ukrainians, bear eerie resemblance to our own times. The 1918 collapses begin with shortages of food & basically everything 
Also strongly recommend @20committee book on the fall of the Habsburg Army ... especially if you were or are in a wintry lockdown that is redolent of Przemysl in 1914-1915. It was stocked by the @HGM_Wien on my last visit (one of the best museums anywhere). Prost!
This by @DrAEFox on the British Army as a learning army in the Great War was/is very interesting and breaks new ground
Absolutely ! #Agnipath needs our full support given it is intended to train & arm the #Indics for a 2.5 front which we are likely to face in next decade during the next #GreatWar !
These protests on #Agnipath r engineered by those power who fear 2.5 front & possibility of an Indic Front inside to manage the Chaos. The #SinoPakAxis would the most affected by it no wonder its agents in India will ignite this chaos & try to stall it as India gets battle ready.
There are some loopholes in it what happens to 75% of recruits after 4 years, will they be subsumed in paramilitary forces for internal security. Also about the integration with various units. These concerns can be addressed. But all over its a massive scale up for Armed Forces.
Indirect fire with the #VickersMG (principles apply elsewhere though): First need to understand that in #VickersMG parlance: DIRECT fire is targets that can be seen from the gun position; INDIRECT fire is for targets that are obscured. Direct fire photos using tangent sight: 1/
A target could be obscured by the terrain (such as a hill, ridge or woodland); smoke or fog (possibly intentional) or the darkness of the night. The #VickersMG is laid on an 'aiming mark' and then that becomes its zero line. (Aussie aiming lamp vid: ) 2/
The instruments vary over time but the principles are the same: direction dial and elevating wheel; clinometer and bar foresight; dial sight. Only other change is the ammunition used (maybe another thread one day - Mk 7 v Mk 8z). 3/
#NVHOW20 Introducing Dr Joel Morley @JoelMMorley ‘Young men’s encounters with the Great War in interwar Britain’ - what they encountered, what left an impression, and how those impressions impact our understanding of the cultural legacy of the #GreatWar #FirstWorldWar #FWW
#NVHOW20 conference presenter @JoelMMorley is the author of the forthcoming @ManchesterUP Joining Up in the Second World War: Enlistment, Masculinity and the Memory of the Great War, 2022. #GreatWar #FirstWorldWar #FWW #Memory ##SWW #WWII #SecondWorldWar
1 #NVHOW20 I'm using #oralhistory & @massobservation to explore how print representations of WW1 were experienced by men growing up in interwar Britain. Looking at what they read & what left an impression, rather than at texts, complicates understandings of WW1s cultural legacy.
A well-preserved Belgium made (by FN) M1910 pistol, chambered in .380 ACP (9mm Browining) that was used during the National Struggle of EOKA (1955-1959) in #Cyprus
M1910 was an original design by J. M. Browing that was mostly produced in #Belgium for the European market. Perfect for concealed carry
This pistol was, literally, the reason for the #GreatWar. Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, used it to assasinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serajevo, on the August of 1914
In 1914, Emile de Vynck, his wife and baby arrived in North Wales. Their home in Malines, Belgium had been bombed. Lloyd George found houses for several displaced families in Gwynedd, and took the de Vynck family into his own home in Criccieth.
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On 16th October 1914, Emile was interviewed by The Cambrian News:
“I left Malines when the Germans bombarded it for the fifth time. Nearly everyone fled the day after the German brutes entered the town. In terror we rushed to another village.
“I left Malines when the Germans bombarded it for the fifth time. Nearly everyone fled the day after the German brutes entered the town. In terror we rushed to another village.
A kindly farmer hid us in his barn and we lay there on the straw. When we woke we escaped to Duffel and from there to Bruges where we arrived at midnight and found the town in darkness. Two ladies gave us hospitality and the next day at a very early hour we went on to Ostend.
