Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Four from the O.S.S!
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs Revisited
Monday, November 11, 2024
Don't Want to Watch the Movie?
Sunday, November 3, 2024
SAS Leading the Charge!
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Virus vs Bacteria!
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Mountain Man Icon
Sunday, October 13, 2024
The Inside Story of LEGO!
Friday, August 23, 2024
What makes you curious?
Thursday, August 15, 2024
A Video Game and American History!
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Russia and the world!
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Septuagint in Context
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Eywitness from Kyiv
Illia Ponomarenko opens the book with being embedded with the 72nd Mechanized Brigade on a patrol outside Kyiv in March 2022. His remembrance of earlier times spent with this unit in the Donbas area duing 2017 and other years sets the context for the most recent Russian invasion. Ponomarenko then takes you back to December 2021 and sets the stage letting you in on how life in Kyiv was before the war and what people were ding and thinking. He guides the reader through the time before the invasion and then the opening days in February and March when all was confusion and chaos. Ponomarenko, his mother, and his roommate fled to western Ukraine and stayed with Illia;s girlfriend's parents. But after a couple of days, Ponomarenko and his roommate Ivan return to Kyiv. Ponomarenko continues reporting for the Kyiv Independent media service visiting the front-lines when possible, but also providing background information and home-front stories as well. He brings the book to a close in May 2022 after Kyiv has been saved.
In I Will Show You How It Was, Illia Ponomarenko provides a first-person account of the opening days of the most recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. This title will be of interest to anyone interested in Ukraine, recent European events, or life in a war zone. A story that everyone should read!
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Scouts, Rangers, and Secret Services in the American Civil War
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
A Flying Chinese-American W.A.S.P. in WWII
Friday, May 17, 2024
Diving on 12 wrecks!
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Textbooks - Misinformation or Disinformation?
Friday, April 5, 2024
An Author on His Love of Reading Providors!
Friday, March 29, 2024
Can You Win an Information War?
Sefton Delmer was born in Berlin to Australian parents. His father was a professor in Imperial Germany and he was ten when World War I broke out. He experienced the effects of propaganda first-hand as school friends turned on him in a matter of weeks. His family did not get out of Germany for several years and this experience shaped his view of life and people. He finished growing in England, got an Oxford degree and then became a journalist for the Daily Express in 1920's Germany. He chronicled the rise of the Nazi regime, acting as an aide-de-camp to Ernest Rohm, the leader of the Nazi storm troopers at a private meeting. Delmer accompanied Hitler on his airplane as he campaigned to become president against Hindenburg. Delmer also gave lots of parties in Berlin that attracted a number of Nazi officials. After World War II, broke out and France was occupied, Hitler gave a speech offering peace to Great Britain. Sefton Delmar was selected at the BBC to provide an immediate reply that threw the Nazis for a loop. This was what he wanted to do, using language to subvert the enemy. But before he could get a position in the psych-ops wing of the British intelligence services, he had to persuade the powers that be that he was not a Nazi infiltrator and that he had an idea that would reach beyond the "Good German" that the current BBC programming was focusing on.
In late1940, Delmer was posted to Lisbon by the Daily Express. He was also to find out German plans regarding Gibraltar for the Secret Intelligence Service. Then he got recalled to London where he resigned from the Daily Express and was placed in charge of a "Research Unit" - actually a code for "freedom radio." Delmer had the challenge of setting up a right-wing sounding radio to influence the German public! Finally Delmer could put his ideas into practice! Propaganda was what was needed and that was what was delivered using language, tone, and innuendo that got the listeners to stop believing everything on the official radio broadcasts. Delmer took the German broadcasts and spun them with sly bits of commentary that would get listeners rethinking their attitudes toward Nazi officials, the military, their neighbors, and eventually everything. Delmar used the truth to undercut the lies and "fake news" that the official German broadcasts had regarding bombings, outcomes of battles, and survival of individuals. But, Delmer's success in floating some propaganda ideas during the war had unintended consequences after the war, specifically, the stories he spread regarding the German general's opposition to Hitler. After the war, Delmer never knew the success he had before and during the war, but his contribution to winning the war was immense.