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The British and Free French launched a joint operation to Dakar in Senegal in 1940. As I relate, it did not go to plan... Operation Menace 1940: three days of incompetent bungling (YouTube)

An hour and a half of story, with quite a build of tension (I hope). This includes two short animations which took perhaps longer than they should have taken to do, and much less of the historical background that took up the first hour of the last one about the last war against the French. As the th

As I type this, the video is still 'processing' (YouTube checking that I haven't breached copyright etc.), and is due to be watchable in about 45 minutes' time. So, are you sure that you know the answer to the question? This one is LONG, but I hope that the journey is worth it. It does eventually ma

Not a great click-bait title, is it? Should it have been "The tank that gave Hitler nightmares!" instead? Not really my style. Anyway, for those of you who like tanks: tanks! Specifically LOTS of tanks. World War Two's most common tank (YouTube)

Half-tracks! All the fun of lorries, plus a bit of tank! Hanomag 251 - Steed of the Panzergrenadiers (YouTube)

Those of you who like long videos should like this one. It definitely qualifies. Hurrah! A post that is actually about a video!Those of you who like long videos should like this one. It definitely qualifies.Spies, secret missions, long-distance adventure, pluck, amateurism, Britishness, and explosio

My longest video ever! Great for those of you who like them long, and less great for those who have to spend days fact-checking digressions and sourcing permissions to use photographs. The topic is about as tricky as they come. I know that I will annoy someone somewhere by being too harsh on some ch

The stirring tale of the gallant lads of 155 Battery RA, who in 1943 were attacked by an overwhelming force of elite German troops, and fought to the last. I get side-tracked almost immediately into trying to summarise the whole war in the desert up to that point, with digressions within that, so it

Whoops! For some reason this one didn't show up here before. Sorry. I must have neglected to click 'publish' or something. Here we get to see inside a Lee tank in some detail, and I rabbit on as usual with bad hair. The British Lee tank (that is not a Grant) (YouTube)

I do hope that all those wanting one have had a merry Christmas, and that the coming year proves to be a good 'un. For now, here's a long ramble about tanks and fighting and stuff. I had put my back out and was on pain-killers and I think it does show a bit. 1942: 21 anti-tank guns against 100 tanks

Tanks! The German tank fanboys might not like it, though. Footage from home, Bovington, and Warsaw. Hetzer - a German mobile armoured coffin (YouTube)

A longish rambling one about bombardment, with a particular emphasis on the psychological effects of it. It includes live musical performance! Possibly inconsistent in tone. I think there might be a bit of 'too soon' about the Falklands, which is why in the edit I chose the end captions that I did.

Bit of a click-baity title, possibly, but it is the subject of the video. Whereas the titles of YouTube videos tend to suggest authority and watch-this-and-then-you-will-finally-and-definitively-settle-the-matter-in-your-mind -forever, in the actual video, I tone it down a bit a present a 'strong ca

People asked for more tales of deception, so here are more tales of deception: the withdrawal from the Dardanelles, the Second Battle of El Alamein, and the hilarious Operation Camilla. Three Great British Wartime Deceptions (YouTube)

I had to think about the title to this one carefully. "The Third Reich's greatest killer" would have got the video banned for certain. I'm hoping that I get away with this one. You are seeing this a day before the riff-raff. The StuG III - Germany's deadliest AFV (YouTube)

The third in my series on the Battle of the Atlantic. One for wargamers and military history enthusiasts alike. You are getting to see this a day early. The wargamers who won a real war. (YouTube)

It was cold out there, and dangerous. Another long rambly one, which seems to be the type that most people like. The Battle of the Atlantic: U-boats and how to sink them (YouTube)

Back to tanks. Bad ones. A poor tank, a useless tank, and the worst tank in the world (YouTube)

This one was shot a while ago in Switzerland. My host, whose rifles I was using, was standing behind the camera, which you might be able to tell. Why use clips when you can use magazines? (YouTube)

The command bunker 'Western Approaches' is now a museum in Liverpool. I was invited to take a look before it re-opened. Western Approaches - the bunker from which they won the war (YouTube)

At least one person asked me for a video on this topic, a year ago, and WHOOSH! Here it is. Edited using footage from two different trips to Bovington, I appear again with The Chieftain. Flying Tanks! Tetrarchs and Locusts (YouTube)

WHOOPS! It seems that the last few videos did not show up on Patreon! Allow me to rectify this. Here's one about WW2 books. Two books on WW2 - which is the memoir and which the novel? (YouTube)

Just to let you know - I've uploaded this quickie. Fingers crossed the project takes off. No charge for this video. Crowd funding a new WW2 YouTube project (YouTube)

I'm hoping that this will prove a popular topic. Things always get lost when I do one of these one-take talks, but I hope that the lack of choppy cutting is compensation for this. One detail I missed out was that David Stirling was 25 when he was dreaming up the future S.A.S. in a hospital bed. The