Jack Bowsher - Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945
@HistoryBowsh
Military Historian,Author&Educator|Associate Fellow @RoyalHistSoc|Thunder Run-Chiselbury Publishing|Media Rep.Past Preservers: [email protected]
🌩️🏃RELEASE DAY! Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 is out now! Get your copy today wherever you get your books - @amazon @chiselbury @Waterstones @WHSmith and many more! #ww2 #history #author #writer #tanks #india #burma #myanmar #historian #greatest #thunder #run #army #battle…
This you @rentaquill 😂
Heard a boy in a bookshop ask his dad what the shelves full of OS maps were. Dad explained that they were used to go places as "there was a time before GPS", and opened a map to show him. Son didn't understand at all. As a map lover it breaks my heart.
Heard a boy in a bookshop ask his dad what the shelves full of OS maps were. Dad explained that they were used to go places as "there was a time before GPS", and opened a map to show him. Son didn't understand at all. As a map lover it breaks my heart.
This was a blast!
👋 Coming soon…fab to have recorded an ep with @forgottenwarpod’s @robert_lyman for @HistSyndicate yesterday on ‘Korea: War Without End’🎙️ What a topic worth studying! 📖 visit the pod page and follow the 🔗 to subscribe wherever you get your pods so you don’t miss it 🎧
Take a look at my novel Elephant Moon.
The 1942 Burma campaign was more than a military defeat; it was seen as a defeat of empire. The catastrophic retreat, particularly the challenges faced by Indian refugees and accusations of racial discrimination during evacuation, had a lasting impact on British imperial…
👏one for my friends at the @DorsetIc
Very excited for this next week, get your tickets in the link below 👇
Battle of Meiktila: Fourteenth Army unleashed 💪 ‘Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!’
🚨 LIVESTREAM SPECIAL 🚨 🐎➡️🚀 Tanks as cavalry dreams? @HistoryBowsh reveals how soldiers finally unleashed their inner charge across Burma’s plains! ⚔️🔥 #Tanks #HistoryPodcast 💥 Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/30133e #History #Podcast #WWII
John @robert_lyman and @HistoryBowsh have been trying to contact you to come on and discuss your book, and the role elephants played in 1942 - DM us when you get a moment 👍
🚨 LIVESTREAM SPECIAL 🚨 🐎➡️🚀 Tanks as cavalry dreams? @HistoryBowsh reveals how soldiers finally unleashed their inner charge across Burma’s plains! ⚔️🔥 #Tanks #HistoryPodcast 💥 Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/30133e #History #Podcast #WWII
Very excited for this next week, get your tickets in the link below 👇
You can hear @HistoryBowsh talk on his new book #Meiktila, at St Mary’s Church, Blandford St Mary DT11 9ND on Thur 31 July at 1pm 4 @lastthurslunch. You shall be entertained, informed and as incentive, the first glass of wine is FREE. Tkts eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-last-thu…
You can hear @HistoryBowsh talk on his new book #Meiktila, at St Mary’s Church, Blandford St Mary DT11 9ND on Thur 31 July at 1pm 4 @lastthurslunch. You shall be entertained, informed and as incentive, the first glass of wine is FREE. Tkts eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-last-thu…
The 1942 Burma campaign was more than a military defeat; it was seen as a defeat of empire. The catastrophic retreat, particularly the challenges faced by Indian refugees and accusations of racial discrimination during evacuation, had a lasting impact on British imperial…
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Amazing to see it out in the wild, hope you enjoyed my professional ramblings 😎🤌 thanks JMcN.
From the keyboard of @RM_Mili_History, stalwart of @FightingOnFilm. All new to me. You’ll make an AFV enthusiast of me yet.😉 (@CMVMAG)
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Thank you @DBGMilitaria v quick delivery for these. An anon Burma Star, & an original photo of 25 Dragoons advancing towards Razabil Fortress in late Jan 1944-a crucial moment in the Burma Campaign, where bunker busting methods were first used in combat. A few weeks later these…
I wonder if the Americans based it on Blitzkrieg which is after all Lightning war . It's fascinating how language spreads and evolves . I think Al used it in the pod so who knows you might see it applied to more WW2 things . You need to find an opposite to apply to XXX corps
A VERY HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY to the wonderful @pte_hammond, #veteran of the #BurmaCampaign of #WW2 & tireless fundraiser across #Africa in #covid, his achievements r #legend in #Ghana. Many congratulations on reaching this great milestone in life! ‼️🎂🎈🥳🎉
Have been wondering ever since I saw the cover of our very own @HistoryBowsh excellent new book on Burma . How exactly Meiktila was pronounced and now I know. Is this the first use of Thunder Run ? I assume it's derived from Blitzkrieg somehow ?
#OTD 1944, my great uncle was on a special mission called Operation Wildhorn lll to pick up captured V2's parts,plans,photos, plus insert/extract Polish agents. Flew in a single C47 from their base in Italy to a beet field at night in southern Poland to pick it up. @WeHaveWaysPod
#OTD 1944, my great uncle, John Appleby RAFVR was on Operation Wildhorn lll, a special mission to pick up V2 parts, plans, photos & VIP’s from southern Poland in a single C47, KG477 V of 267 Pegasus Sqdn. @WeHaveWaysPod (Family Stories pod 283) @James1940 @almurray #WNTL 👍😉👏
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