A perfect description of Defenders of the Myth…
This sums up my haters perfectly:
Tired of Ash’s ‘revisionist history’?
I am well aware there are some who are roll their eyes at my ‘revisionist history’, and who are enraged by my ‘modern-day claims’ of Kruger’s aim being ‘to build an Empire from the Zambesi to the Cape’. I mean, how dare this Jonny-come-lately...
Interesting Telegraph article on parallels with 1904
Interesting article in the Daily Telegraph by Jeremy Black today: Vladimir Putin now faces a 1905-style national humiliation The sinking of the flag ship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet provoked a sense of deja vu among military historians...
Andrew Roberts: myth-buster extraordinaire
Reported in the Telegraph today: Historian Andrew Roberts has been handed the “Book of the Year” prize for his George III: the Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch by History Reclaimed, a group of 40 “anti-woke” academics...
Durban or bust…
Defenders of the Myth entertain me in so many ways, that it is sometimes hard to decide which is their most amusing feature. Could it be their complete and utter ignorance of South African history? Maybe it’s the way they will argue that black is...
‘Those who do not learn history…’
‘Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it’George Santayana One of the fundamentals of military strategy is to pursue a clearly defined objective, or ‘main effort’. Diversionary attacks should be no more than that – ie...