My #Kickstarter is almost over. We've hit the target and the first two stretch goals. With luck, we might hit the third one too.
The French Maquis are possibly the most widely-known #SecondWorldWar resistance organisation, but there were resistors in every occupied territory, and #SOE agents worked in almost all of them.
Gah. I've just visited a #SecondWorldWar group on Facebook, and the first two posts I saw were wrong.
One had a photo of a Sturmtiger claiming it was a Maus.
The other mentioned the Victoria Cross. It correctly mentioned that only one person won the VC twice during the war, but then listed how many VCs were awarded by country, and missed out New Zealand. Charles Upham, the man who won it twice, was a New Zealander.
My cover designer sent me the attached earlier, with the following question. "Why use a real cover designer when you can create masterpieces like this using AI?"
For those that don't know, the attack on Pearl Harbor was carried out by the Japanese. The planes on the cover are German Fw190s.
I've blurred the author name because I have no desire to cause a pile-on.
#OnThisDay in 1942, the Allies began Operation Streamline Jane, to capture the rest of #Madagascar. Streamline Jane consisted of three linked operations, codenamed Stream, Line, and Jane.
The initial landings for all three operations were very successful. But Vichy resistance was stubborn, and it was November before the island was completely under Allied control.
The latest episode of the #WW2 Podcast covers Patton in France, August-December 1944.
The start is particularly interesting, as Kevin Hymel talks about how the 1953 transcription of Patton's diaries diverged hugely from what Patton actually wrote.