James Holland
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James Holland
@James1940
Historian, author & broadcaster of WW2. Chalke History Festival. #WarGen #WeHaveWays podcast. #WW2WalkingTheGround Purveyor of jackets avreind.com
- IT’S A DISGRACE. My sis-in-law is a primary school teacher at breaking point. She gives virtual lessons & also actual lessons to kids of key workers who still come into school. Her younger staff are too ‘stressed’ & are off work. She also has 2 of her own kids at home.
- Just how good were these boys today? Not easy carrying a lead-lined oak casket with the late Queen within faultlessly but they’ve done just that. Massive hats off.
- The President says the “1917 pandemic” ended the Second World War
00:00 - What a truly extraordinary life of unstinting service. I feel really very odd. And sad.
- Ah, sad, sad news. The brillIant, wonderful Tom Neil, veteran of the Battle of Britain, Malta, D-Day and outstanding test pilot and author passed away last night. The world is a lesser place without him...
- I’m totally with @GaryLineker both for his right to express his own views but more importantly on the sentiment. How @SuellaBraverman can claim these plans are either legal or compassionate is totally beyond me. And sending any of them to Rwanda is absolutely despicable.
- I’v got literally 1,000s of pics for my new #Normandy44 book but only 16 pages of pics allotted. Am thinking of adding a load more on my website. Would anyone be interested to see these?
- I love this. Classy from Vitesse Arnhem.
- Hope for Ukraine. Key to a defensive battle is holding the nodal points - cities, crossroads, rivers etc. France failed to do so in 1940, US forces did in the Ardennes in 1944. The longer the Ukrainians hold onto Kyiv, the more Putin’s rapid victory plan is derailed.
- And just talking to my great friend and sage, @militaryhistori: ‘Zelensky is proving as important to Ukraine as Churchill was to Britain in 1940.’ Defiant, unifying, speaking to the free world, standing up to autocractic, deranged despots. Keep going @ZelenskyyUa!
