A few comments on my recent publications

Some of my publications have been getting a bit of international press recently.

Here are a few:

First from the editor of The Dorchester Review, a new Canadian publication that picked up and ran one of my prior publications in Quadrant...

Dear Mr. Davies,

You might be interested in your new-found notoriety among Canadian readers:

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/12/31/david-frum-amateur-historians-to-the-rescue/

and for background:

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/07/01/david-frum-setting-canadian-history-right-in-an-exciting-new-journal/

Very best wishes,

Chris Champion
Contributing Editor - Dorchester Review

(The David Frum who is commenting is a Canadian/American commentator who worked as an aide/speechwriter for Geroge W Bush. His recommendatioin could be considred a double edged sword... In fact he wrote the Axis of Evil speech. Though he personally claimed to preferred to call it the 'Axis of Hatred'... Hmm.)


I followed the original book review with a 6,000 word article, also in Quadrant, on the warped historiography of the Singapore Debacle. I couldn't get it published in any academic magazine 20 years ago, but in the last year I have managed 7 publications in Austrlaia and overseas on the topic... An idea whose time has (belatedly ) come?



Meanwhile, in a complete reversal of normality, an Australian reviewer has picked up one of my overseas publications to comment on...

http://australianwargamer.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/why-did-barbarossa-fail/

ATO magazine commissioned 15,000 words on Opertion Barbarossa (not one of my specialty areas), on the basis of articles they read on this blog. they said thy wanted a fresh interpretation, and were inspired by my Oversimplification: the numbers fallacy post.

(This Barbarossa article was copyrighted to the small distribution and subscription only ATO magazine for 12 months, which is now expired... anyone know a new publisher who might be interested? Apparently some people like it!)