Mark Piesing
@MarkPiesing
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I write on tech, history + books @airandspace @BBC_Future @HISTORY @spectator | WINNER Aerospace Media Awards 2025| Finalist 2024 |Author N-4 DOWN @marinerbooks
Oxford
Joined April 2011
I was gobsmacked to win an award at the Aerospace Media Awards in Paris last night for my article for @airandspace Quarterly on the Secret History of Drones. Thanks to the editors and curators who made it possible!. #PAS2025 #ParisAirShow2025
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RT @MarkPiesing: Interviewing Hitler by Richard Evans review – the most unethical journalist in history. #WW2 #History .
theguardian.com
George Ward Price, the Mail’s star reporter, landed a series of scoops in the 1930s. But who was he really working for?
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RT @SciGuySpace: Probably the best view of the SpaceX production site in South Texas we've ever seen. For perspective I've attached a photo….
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RT @eeldenden: 🇪🇺 🇫🇮 Finnish President Stubb on Putin not accepting NATO troops in 🇺🇦: “Russia doesn't decide on that. It's as simple as th….
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Russian Sabotage Operations In Europe Have Quadrupled Since 2023. But Europe has struggled to come up with a coordinated response.
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Russia has dramatically increased sabotage operations throughout Europe, a new report has found, with the number of attacks targeting critical infrastructure nearly quadrupling since 2023.
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RT @RupertMyers: We choose not to go to the Moon. We choose not to go to the Moon in this decade or do the other things, not because they….
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RT @rupwalker: This is truly an abysmal decision. The new space race of this century has started: Mars, LEO satellites and weapons, space….
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A very short sighted move.
UK independent space agency scrapped to cut costs
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RT @yuanyi_z: Your reminder the UK is the only country in world history to have develop orbital launch capabilities then abandoned them bec….
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RT @hw97karbine: A classic clip showing a Boeing QB-17 Flying Fortress target drone disintegrated by the impact of a Nike Hercules missile….
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RT @McFaul: Putin didn't ask our permission when inviting North Korean soldiers to his country. So why should we ask for his permission whe….
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Great news!. Dept. Q Season 2: The Matthew Goode Series Will Return for Another Season
netflix.com
Matthew Goode’s Detective Carl Morck is back for another cold case.
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RT @MarkPiesing: @philmcraig In Eagle Days @SpitfireFilly seamlessly blends academic research + narrative history to tell the story of the….
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RT @MarkPiesing: I thought the story of the Battle of Britain couldn’t move me anymore, but I was wrong!. In Finest Hour, Tim Clayton and @….
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RT @likesmokenoakum: Ten years ago today, Syrian archaeologist and head of antiquities at Palmyra, Khaled Al-Asaad was tortured for four we….
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I really enjoyed reading Eagle Days, particularly when all those smug Luftwaffe officers in the first half of the book get their comeuppance in the second!.
@philmcraig In Eagle Days @SpitfireFilly seamlessly blends academic research + narrative history to tell the story of the BoB from the Luftwaffe’s pov. She injects a welcome sense of jeopardy into the events of Summer 1940, which can get lost in revisionist accounts. Highly recommended!
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@philmcraig In Eagle Days @SpitfireFilly seamlessly blends academic research + narrative history to tell the story of the BoB from the Luftwaffe’s pov. She injects a welcome sense of jeopardy into the events of Summer 1940, which can get lost in revisionist accounts. Highly recommended!
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I thought the story of the Battle of Britain couldn’t move me anymore, but I was wrong!. In Finest Hour, Tim Clayton and @philmcraig turn the very familiar events of 1940 into a gripping, thrilling + moving story. Highly recommended!. 7/7
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