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A SORDID BACKSTAIRS DEAL…

By Various Contributors  Just as some optimists began to believe that there may have been a…

  • Posted on 15 Nov 2025
  • 39 min read

ALONG THE SILK ROAD AND BEYOND…

By Nigel Barnett, Airborne Forces Riders PRA Branch [Editorial Foreword The Airborne Forces Riders formed up…

  • Posted on 04 Nov 2025
  • 18 min read

Paras in the Tower of London…

By Garett Fitzgerald of the PRA’s Ilford 84 Branch On a chilly October Sunday morning, visitors…

  • Posted on 27 Oct 2025
  • 09 min read

IS GAZA LIKE ULSTER?

By Lieutenant Colonel Simon Barry (Ret’d) Simon Barry was commissioned into The 3rd Battalion The Parachute…

  • Posted on 17 Oct 2025
  • 23 min read

OÙ SONT LES ROSBIFS?

By Stuart Boxall-Hunt Special thanks to UNP photographer Isabelle Garnier who very kindly photographed the British…

  • Posted on 11 Oct 2025
  • 34 min read

THE FRENCH SAS 1941-1945

By David Portier (Translated from the French by Prosper Keating) Editorial Foreword: David Portier is the…

  • Posted on 21 Jul 2025
  • 30 min read

Free French Paras…

By Hermes Editor Prosper Keating With the Ilford 84 and London branches of the Parachute Regimental…

  • Posted on 06 Jul 2025
  • 20 min read