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The Pen & The Sword: May 2010
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. Ils ne passeront pas le tasse. 250 whilst I'm 25. Saturday, 15 May 2010. If you'll forgive me I'm going to jump forwards in time from the First World War (even if you don't I'm going to anyway) to discuss the Second World War. Specifically this story.
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The Pen & The Sword: 70 years ago? Really?
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. 250 whilst I'm 25. Thursday, 23 September 2010. Several things have occurred to me during this period and I thought 'what better subject to blog on' so here I go. But anyway; the 70th anniversary. So why does WW2 feel more recent? I think an element we hav...
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The Pen & The Sword: Ils ne passeront pas le tasse
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. Ils ne passeront pas le tasse. 250 whilst I'm 25. Saturday, 1 May 2010. Ils ne passeront pas le tasse. Now I don't want to give the impression that there are no enjoyable WW1 games out there. This is completely untrue. Now I haven't really got the faintest...
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The Pen & The Sword: September 2010
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. 250 whilst I'm 25. Thursday, 23 September 2010. Several things have occurred to me during this period and I thought 'what better subject to blog on' so here I go. But anyway; the 70th anniversary. So why does WW2 feel more recent? I think an element we hav...
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The Pen & The Sword: Gallipoli and Identity
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. Ils ne passeront pas le tasse. 250 whilst I'm 25. Monday, 10 May 2010. Emerged this week about an Australian TV Drama casting a caucasian man to play the part of a Chinese-Australian war hero in their upcoming Gallipoli production. Now we can't overlook th...
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The Pen & The Sword: The difficult sequel
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. Ils ne passeront pas le tasse. 250 whilst I'm 25. Saturday, 15 May 2010. If you'll forgive me I'm going to jump forwards in time from the First World War (even if you don't I'm going to anyway) to discuss the Second World War. Specifically this story.
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The Pen & The Sword: Too Soon?
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. 250 whilst I'm 25. Wednesday, 9 June 2010. I've spent ages trying to find a clip of this particular incident and largely failed miserably. However I have found a transcript of it courtesy of this marvellous website. And that'll have to do. The joke doesn't...
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The Pen & The Sword: April 2010
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. Choose your own war. Whose game is it anyway? 250 whilst I'm 25. Friday, 30 April 2010. Choose your own war. I thought I might carry on with the rough 'First World War computer game' track with which I began. Also given how the war is usually portrayed, wo...
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The Pen & The Sword: June 2010
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The Pen and The Sword. I'm Chris Kempshall. This is my blog. I'm currently studying a DPhil at the University of Sussex, focused on relations between British and French soldiers on the Western Front during the First World War. View my complete profile. 250 whilst I'm 25. Wednesday, 9 June 2010. I've spent ages trying to find a clip of this particular incident and largely failed miserably. However I have found a transcript of it courtesy of this marvellous website. And that'll have to do. The joke doesn't...
