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Articles

Is Christianity truly dying?

Jan 10, 2025 | thespectator.com | Nick Spencer |Lionel Shriver |Allan Mallinson |Richard Dawkins

George Orwell began his beautiful, nostalgic pre-war novel Coming up for Air with an epigraph from a popular song. “He’s dead, but he won’t lie down.” It’s tempting to borrow the line when writing about Christianity in the West today. The chronicle of its death has been long foretold, its obituary repeatedly rewritten.
Is Christianity truly dying?

Jan 10, 2025 | thespectator.com | Nick Spencer |Lionel Shriver |Allan Mallinson |Richard Dawkins

George Orwell began his beautiful, nostalgic pre-war novel Coming up for Air with an epigraph from a popular song. “He’s dead, but he won’t lie down.” It’s tempting to borrow the line when writing about Christianity in the West today. The chronicle of its death has been long foretold, its obituary repeatedly rewritten.
Why does Stanislaw Maczek receive so little recognition?

Jan 9, 2025 | thespectator.com | Allan Mallinson |Christopher Sandford |Philip Womack |James Campbell

Who could forget the Polish squadrons in RAF Fighter Command when, in the 1969 film The Battle of Britain, a British squadron leader, frustrated by the excited radio chatter on being allowed into action at last, orders “Silence! In Polish!” Or the Polish Parachute Brigade at Arnhem, whose commander, Stanislaw Sosabowski, played by Gene Hackman in A Bridge Too Far (1977), thinking the venture disastrous, growls “God Bless Field Marshal Montgomery” as he jumps from his Dakota?
The good soldier Maczek – a war hero betrayed | The Spectator Australia

Dec 4, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Allan Mallinson

Who could forget the Polish squadrons in RAF Fighter Command when, in the 1969 film The Battle of Britain, a British squadron leader, frustrated by the excited radio chatter on being allowed into action at last, orders ‘Silence! In Polish!’ Or the Polish Parachute Brigade at Arnhem, whose commander, Stanislaw Sosabowski, played by Gene Hackman in A Bridge Too Far (1977), thinking the venture disastrous, growls ‘God Bless Field Marshal Montgomery’ as he jumps from his Dakota?
The good soldier Maczek - a war hero betrayed

Dec 3, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Allan Mallinson

Who could forget the Polish squadrons in RAF Fighter Command when, in the 1969 film The Battle of Britain, a British squadron leader, frustrated by the excited radio chatter on being allowed into action at last, orders ‘Silence! In Polish!’ Or the Polish Parachute Brigade at Arnhem, whose commander, Stanislaw Sosabowski, played by Gene Hackman in A Bridge Too Far (1977), thinking the venture disastrous, growls ‘God Bless Field Marshal Montgomery’ as he jumps from his Dakota?
The tragic tale of Rex Whistler, the brilliant young artist whose time at the Front Line lasted less than 24 hours

Aug 16, 2024 | countrylife.co.uk | Allan Mallinson

Rex Whistler, determined that the Second World War shouldn’t be left to young boys, worked hard to become an officer and lead troops into battle, but the naivety of early courage cost him his life on his very first day of battle, as Allan Mallinson reveals.
Eighty years on, the planning of Operation Neptune remains awesome

Apr 10, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Allan Mallinson

Normandy: The Sailors’ Story A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle of France Yale, pp.460, 20 In December last year, the last surviving D-Day veteran of my old regiment, the 13th/18th Royal Hussars, died peacefully in his care home.
Eighty years on, the planning of Operation Neptune remains awesome

Apr 10, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Allan Mallinson

Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Allan Mallinson Eighty years on, the planning of Operation Neptune remains awesome Linkedin Messenger Email Normandy: The Sailors’ Story A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle of France Nick Hewitt Yale, pp. 460, £20 In December last year, the last surviving D-Day veteran of my old regiment, the 13th/18th Royal Hussars, died peacefully in his care home. On 6 June 1944, 20-year-old Trooper Lawrence Burn had been the gunner in a specially adapted...
Why was the British army so ill-prepared to fight the second world war?

Jan 10, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Allan Mallinson

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine William Collins, pp.540, 26Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-1940 Osprey, pp.350, 25 Conflict comes highly recommended. Two former chiefs of the defence staff, Generals David Richards and Nicholas Carter, praise it for identifying key lessons from the past appropriate to the future. A former MoD strategic adviser, Sir Hew Strachan, says it will ‘challenge the professional and enlighten the generalist’.
Why was the British army so ill-prepared to fight the second world war?

Jan 9, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Allan Mallinson

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Conflict comes highly recommended. Two former chiefs of the defence staff, Generals David Richards and Nicholas Carter, praise it for identifying key lessons from the past appropriate to the future. A former MoD strategic adviser, Sir Hew Strachan, says it will ‘challenge the professional and enlighten the generalist’. The US marine corps general and former secretary of defense James Mattis, ‘the warrior monk’, says it...