A commentator on the Angry Staff Officer’s blog introduced me to Major Digby Tatham-Warter (d. 1993): A Company was then chosen by the battalion’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel John Dutton Frost, to lead the 2nd Parachute Battalion in the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden, because of Digby’s reputation of being an aggressive... Continue reading: Any One Method of Communication Can and Will Fail
One way I use this blog is as a commonplace book. Researchers often assume that to publish something in the fifth or fourth century BCE was more or less the same as to do it in 1950 AD: one wrote and corrected it, checked it carefully, sent it out to be copied and distributed, and... Continue reading: Publishing in Xenophon’s World