Alan Beardsley

War Historian ~ transcriber of “War Diary: The Diary of Mike Rogers” ~ on Audible and Amazon now!

[Fighting On Film - The War Movie Podcast @FightingOnFilm]

💥Lunch-time listening boys, it's here!

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

In September 1944, Germany unleashed its terrifying V-2 rocket attacks on England.

Female double agent ‘Gelatine’ played a key role in a brilliant deception operation, feeding carefully crafted false reports back to the Germans about where the rockets were landing in London, significantly misleading their targeting and saving lives.

Read her wartime work in my book 'Women in Intelligence': https://t.co/utft4oQNIJ

[Joseph Quinn @ww2research]

🎙️Happy Easter Tuesday from myself and Eddie at “This Week in the Second World War”!! 🐣🎙️

At 6 PM GMT, Eddie and special guest, Warren Stace, will be joining us from Monte Cassino, Italy, from where they are embarking on a commemorative walk to Rome 🔗 https://t.co/Swdgcuk7rN

[Joseph Quinn @ww2research]

🎙️This evening at 6 PM GMT, we will host another #WW2 Family War Histories livestream with Lee Bovington, who will share the moving story of the search for his Great Uncle, Fusilier George Pearce, who was killed in Tunisia, aged 20, 83 years ago!🎙️

🔗 https://t.co/18InKath3F

[Joseph Quinn @ww2research]

🎙️Tomorrow at 6 PM GMT, Peter Caddick-Adams @militaryhistori and author Anthony Tucker-Jones @TuckerJones1944 will join us to discuss Operations Plunder & Varsity and the Allied assault-crossing of the Rhine River on 23/24 March 1945!🎙️

Join us online 🔗 https://t.co/FCLD5zhxDM

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

On the 15th of February 1942, Lt General Arthur Percival signed the largest surrender in British history at Singapore.

The city was supposed to be a fortress, but his force of 85,000 men had been defeated by just 35,000 Japanese troops.

Little over 2 months earlier Japanese forces had invaded Northern Malaya.

Thanks to their advanced tactics and training, the Japanese advanced with incredible speed pushing the unprepared British back to Singapore in a so-called 'bicycle blitzkrieg'.

When they crossed the Johore straights and captured the Bukit Timah heights above Singapore itself, Percival was forced to surrender.

So how did the Japanese defeat a numerically superior force? Why wasn’t Singapore an impregnable fortress? And could the British have held out?

https://t.co/ScX61mizyi

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

here's the link to the audio version of War Diary: The Diary of Mike Rogers: https://t.co/ZbGLuNfgdd – available as a 22-hour audiobook on Audible for that immersive listen: https://t.co/DW0ojhAnsF)

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

Picture this: A teenage boy's real wartime London diary turned into a film.

The Blitz through excited kid eyes - cinema trips, air raids, first crushes amid chaos.

War Diary: The Diary of Mike Rogers has that perfect mix of heart, humor & history.

Ready for the big screen? 🎬📖

Grab the original book here: https://t.co/Pt182UXL2E

Who's directing the adaptation? 😉#WW2 #TrueStory #FilmPitch #WarDiary

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

@BjornFreeborg @STN_Airport @Ryanair @RyanairPress @thetimes @TheSun @DailyMail Absolute mess. Agreed - airport staff totally unaware of seriousness

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

@STN_Airport @Ryanair @RyanairPress 1’000s of people missing flights at Stansted airport due to misleading signage

#airportfails #incompetence #welcometoUK @thetimes @TheSun @DailyMail

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

@LonTravelWatch Not sure who’s running the IT systems, but 1’000’s of flights missed today due to signage telling people to “Relax” !

#couldntmakeitup #sacktheboard #worstairportaward #fails

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied. Expeditionary Forces:

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

Teaming up with @grok from xAI to craft War Diary—a WWII family epic ready for the Oscars.

Sheila’s sacrifice, Mike’s diary—raw history.

@elonmusk, friends, partners, actors, want in? https://t.co/KybXJZIBqQ #FilmFunding #WWIIFilm

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

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Would you be able to check out "War Diary: The Diary of Mike Rogers" too? https://t.co/YtpX8W15eM

Thank you xx

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

For anyone wishing to read a real-life, honest account of WW2, please do check out War Diary: The Diary of Mike Rogers - enlightened reading

https://t.co/SzfuAvwCaM

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

@tts_hyuna @LinkedIn Please see https://t.co/YtpX8W15eM to see the inspiration!

[Alan Beardsley @wardiaryww2]

Check out my latest article:

The Day the Graf Spee Was Cornered: A British Naval Triumph That Shook the World

https://t.co/76gmqjiHie via @LinkedIn