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WBH Bi-Monthly Digest 2024-05-10: Wizard War

WBH Bi-Monthly Digest 2024-05-10: Wizard War

This Bi-Monthly Digest features two Kickstarters, a memory of Manly Wade Wellman, the way in which the foundation myth of the West is poisoned, and a thread on how fantasy approaches magic. First up is JD Cowan's Star Wanderers. I've liked a lot of Cowan'

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-07-21: Hand-drawn

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-07-21: Hand-drawn

Yes, it has been two weeks, but I insist it is still a weekly digest. The Courageous Life and Death of Rick Rescorla, a 9/11 HeroThe Vietnam veteran helped save hundreds of lives on September 11th, before he was swallowed by the South Tower collapse. “For Rick Rescorla, this

Spy x Family

Spy x Family

Endo Tatsuya's Spy x Family is one of the most wholesome pieces of popular entertainment to come along in quite some time. I can wholeheartedly recommend both the manga and the anime.

Operation Kronstadt Book Review

Harry Ferguson’s Operation Kronstadt [Amazon link] filled in a gap in a time (1919-20) and a place (St. Petersburg) that I had known nearly nothing about. The book starts slow, and then builds and builds up to a genuinely thrilling climax. For events now more than a hundred years

Operation Kronstadt: Coastal Motor Boats

As documented in Operation Kronstadt, The head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, Captain Mansfield Cumming, wanted to use Coastal Motor Boats to rescue a field agent out of Bolshevik-controlled Petrograd in 1919. The CMBs were small and fast, and had the ability to hydroplane and avoid the sub-surface mines

Operation Kronstadt: British Secret Intelligence Service

In the beginning of Operation Kronstadt, Lieutenant ‘Gus’ Agar has a very odd meeting with the head of the British Secret Intelligence service, Captain Mansfield Cumming, a man known simply as ‘C’. …His commanding officer at HMS Osea had ordered him to report to the Admiralty that morning where he

Linkfest 2023-02-11: Declare if thou hast understanding

Crisis Magaine: Declare in a Nutshell Tim Power’s Declare is a remarkably powerful novel. It is perhaps the peak of Powers’ craft of secret histories, that I have to actively watch my own mind as this story threatens to displace real history, the narrative is so compelling. Attorney and