The frantic, panic-stricken lengths that Defenders of the Myth are forced to go to in their attempts to discredit my work always amuses me, but I was especially entertained by one gentleman who swung into action on Quora. Scarcely able to contain...
A few years ago, I wrote an article, challenging some rubbish that appeared in the Berg Times: Berg Times Balderdash – Chris Ash – Author This prompted a fellow called James Seymour to passionately leap to the defence of the much-loved myths...
I was recently interviewed by Chris Parkinson, on his Redcoat History YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/h7NCfNV1Cwc?si=XnTOoskVT-MB2WOH
One of my favourite myths of the Boer War is the one in which the poor, innocent, completely blameless Boers were ‘minding their own business’ and ‘only wishing to be left alone’ before the wicked British bullies declared war and invaded their...
I have long been amused by the way a certain type of – especially stupid – person will twist absolutely every conversation about the Boer War into a pity party about ‘the camps’. One can be discussing the calibre of a 15-pdr, or the colour of the...
I recently came across this extract, which was about the newly-formed (at the time) Union Jack Club: I must admit, I had not previously heard cavalry troops being dismissed as ‘swanking plungers’ before, but – and though at...
‘The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naïve theory into...
There is / was a much-loved myth that the Tommies of the BEF were uniquely capable of such incredibly rapid (yet devastatingly accurate) rifle fire that, at the Battle of Mons (23 August 1914), the Germans reported they were facing a mass of...
I recently read the following passage, which explores the role that – for political reasons – academia has played in pushing for illogical, unscientific and ahistorical utter nonsense to be taught, believed and regurgitated: Still, the purveyors...
I recently read the following passage, and was struck how perfectly it also describes those determined to believe the myths which surround the Boer War: ‘One of the traits of Marxist thinkers has always been that they do not stumble or...
I was recently made aware of this article on the History Reclaimed website, and I recommend it highly: https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/anglo-boer-war-1899-1902-myths/ It is a shame there are a couple of typos in it (the gold rush was in 1886, not...
The bizarre – and ultimately tragic – story of the Walter Mitty who was somehow allowed (encouraged?) to bullshit his way to being a professor at Cambridge proves just how laughable the isolated ivory towers of ‘academia’ can be. It would appear...
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