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Robert Lyman 🇺🇦
@robert_lyman
Historian. Once a soldier. War Studies & IR. linktr.ee/robertlyman amzn.eu/d/6RvKu6s amzn.eu/d/bCZSpmi
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- Just had a message from my son. He’s been away for 10-days. Welcome to the infantry!
- Just a reminder that it was the Assam Regiment that stopped the Japanese at Jessami and Kharasom for 4 days and 5 nights in late March 1944, thus ultimately preventing their capture of Kohima. 1st Assam then marched back over the hills - 125km in 39 hours - to take up position on
- RIP Rev Dr Graham Lyman 1936-2023. Farmer; Presbyterian minister; preacher; Chaplain General Australian Army & in retirement a producer of very fine Shiraz in the Barossa Valley. My father. It was a great blessing being able to spend precious time with him at Christmas.
- He’s not the only person who’s shocked. As an historian, I thought the jew-hate was behind us but no, it’s alive and thriving in our own society.“People are saying things about Jews that they were saying in the 1300s.” Author Howard Jacobson says he “can’t sleep at night” and he is “flabbergasted” by the state of antisemitism in Britain. @hugorifkind | #TimesRadio
00:00 - Absolutely delightful @I_W_M video (MWY 83) of survivors of Operation Longcloth (the first Chindit expedition) in Imphal after walking c1,000 through Upper Burma, May 1943. In one shot you can see Mike Calvert on the left.
00:00 - At last, an infantryman wearing his beret correctly!Prince of Wales in Estonia 🇪🇪 today.
- This is pure sophistry @JohnSimpsonNews. The innocent dead cannot make such elegant linguistic distinctions. If you can’t describe the butcherers of women and children at a peace rave (not to mention the slaughter of babies) as terrorists - as the law does - then the BBC - and
- In exciting news, I’m pleased to say that we’re grandparents for the first time. Welcome Caspar! Caspar means ‘keeper of the treasure’ and is one of the names attributed to the Magi who travelled to worship the infant Jesus in Bethlehem for the first Christmas.
