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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

Jimmy Grant’s Denison Smock

By Tommy Simpson Special thanks to Stuart McLaren for some of the photos Editorial Foreword Tommy…

  • Posted on 04 Apr 2025
  • 09 min read

Varsity Eighty Years On

By Prosper Keating The last major parachute and air-landing operation of the Second World War took…

  • Posted on 22 Mar 2025
  • 12 min read

FLASHBACKS — SOUTH ARMAGH 1973…

By Hermes History Editor Geoff Butler [Editorial Foreword — Hermes does not necessarily endorse the views of its contributors but…

  • Posted on 19 Dec 2024
  • 73 min read

Rachel Fisk 3 — The HSE acts…

By Ian Marshall Editorial Foreword Following-on from his hard-hitting HERMES article on the Sgt Rachel Fisk affair, Ian…

  • Posted on 23 Nov 2024
  • 36 min read

The PRA at The Tower of London

By Chris Dimond Military traditions are established in various ways. For many years, in Scottish Highland…

  • Posted on 20 Nov 2024
  • 12 min read

ARMY AIRBORNE HISTORY

By Prosper Keating The widely accepted version of parachute assault history is that the Soviet Union’s…

  • Posted on 19 Oct 2024
  • 54 min read

THE POPPY LADY

By Dick Merry [Editorial Foreword — 2024 being the 110th anniversary of the outbreak of the…

  • Posted on 16 Oct 2024
  • 22 min read