This is my blog for posting material of academic interest (to me). Expect to see stuff about Greek and Roman history, archaeology, Classical literature, the Ancient Near East, historical films, teaching, the reception of the Classics in science fiction, the abuse of history, science fiction criticism, and occasionally other historical stuff, or just things that I'm interested in. Expect spoilers at all times.
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[Like many men of my age, I have been fascinated by Operation Chastise, the May 1943 Dams Raid, at least since seeing the 1955 movie about it.[1] From my late father I inherited copies of Guy Gibson’s Enemy Coast Ahead (London: Michael Joseph, 1946) and Paul Brickhill’s The Dam Busters (London: Evans, 1951). To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the raid, I wrote a largely unresearched piece for my LiveJournal (remember that!), followed a year later (April 2004) by a piece in a mailing of the APA Acnestis , i