Phil Craig
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Writer/producer ex BBC, Brook Lapping, Nutopia & ABC 🇦🇺. New book 1945 The Reckoning now available in 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿& 🇮🇳. Host of @MongersPodcast
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Joined September 2010
When someone whose work you really admire cites you as an influence. it makes you feel really bloody old! But thanks to the master wordsmith @James1940.
Actually, the book that made me think, ‘yes, this is the way to write history,’ was Finest Hour by @philmcraig and Tim Clayton. Absolutely brilliant - and an amazing BBC TV series too for that matter. Came out back in 1999, I think, but still very much in print.
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RT @aljhlester: @philmcraig’s book 1945 good on the Indian Army:.
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National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s colonies
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My VJ week piece on the war against Japan for yesterdays Express. Many thanks to @MattNixson
express.co.uk
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, how Japan's leaders took their country into a conflict it would be impossible to win... costing tens of millions of lives
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RT @TejpalRalmill: Over a century ago, 4200 soldiers from the Undivided Indian Army were camped behind this gate in Home Park, Hampton Cour….
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Mrs C and I watching - in stages because it is bloody long - the much acclaimed French film Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It's great and all, but also this.
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Team goals achieved.
@philmcraig @andrewlownie @MongersPodcast The Two Ronnies of Podcast 😁. Excellent. Looking forward to reading Mr Lownie’s book; and tuning into the podcast 👍 @andrewlownie.
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Felt good putting the old team back together when I spoke to @andrewlownie earlier today about his new book, which is fascinating the world right now! It will be available on @MongersPodcast next weekend. And neither of us wore corduroy trousers or had any obvious nose hair!
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RT @MongersPodcast: Very excited to be a part of this live event in November along with various online and real life chums and the good fol….
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Immerse yourself in the world of history and storytelling at IWM Podcast Live. This one-of-a-kind event offers a day of live podcast recordings exploring stories from over a century of war and...
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RT @olliewcq: (1/2) Today is the first of a six part special @AspectsHistory pod on the Wars of the Roses with @Feud_writer & @RobeH2 as we….
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RT @HistoryPegg: On the latest episode of the Authors of History Podast I talk to @Philcraig about his career in broadcasting and becoming….
shows.acast.com
A podcast for history book lovers everywhere
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I'm not going to break the embargo, but one of the things about @andrewlownie book on Andrew and Fergie that gives real pleasure is the deliciously bitchy anecdotes from former staff and courtiers who had to put up with his boorish behaviour and short temper. Some expertly.
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RT @AmandaPCraig: The best children’s books for summer 2025 - New Statesman. RT please
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Our action-packed list will thrill readers whether they’re three or 13.
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Excited to be speaking alongside Yavar for the second time on Friday at Hampton Court, all courtesy of @TejpalRalmill.
In 1964, he made a film, in four parts, called "India! My India!," which was broadcast in 1966, see:
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RT @ZSohail10: The latest Authors of History Podcast, Phil Craig: "A former RAF cadet pilot, Phil studied history….
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RT @TejpalRalmill: #WW2 veteran Captain Yavar Abbas returns to the #IndianArmy .exhibition tomorrow! We @aLHSikhs look forward to hearing….
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Spoilers - I don't think that Britain was the baddie in WW2 but looking at some of the little known stories from the final months of the war, and the months that followed. well it's not always pretty. #Wartsandall
nam.ac.uk
To mark VJ Day, join author and filmmaker Phil Craig as he explores some of the geopolitical implications of the Allied victory in the Second World War.
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If anyone is in London and wants to hear a free - and I hope thought provoking - talk on VJ Day then I'm speaking at the National Army Museum. Link below and one of my slides gives a sense of what I'll be discussing.
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This evening I’m starting on an advance copy of one of the most anticipated books of the year! .Any guesses which one?
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Want to see if Lissa’s fella is right? 1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World: Craig, Phil: 9781399714495: Books.
amazon.co.uk
1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World
@philmcraig My husband - a news junkie and an avid reader, particularly of 20th century history - just finished this and described it as revelatory, and the best book he'd read in a very long while.
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