<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Michael  Baker]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am in the business of encouraging a better understanding of the past by re-examining major aspects of British and European history in depth. ]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:55:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/fr/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Blame The Top Brass]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the more singular aspects of what I would call loosely the standard or traditional British narrative of the First World War has been its sombre focus on casualty rates and, more particularly, on those killed or missing in action - the war dead.  Any visitor to the Western Front today cannot fail to note the acres of beautifully laid out tombstones, in graveyards big and small, devoted to the hundreds of thousands of British military personnel who gave their lives in the Great War.  You...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/blame-the-top-brass</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c3e269d2e55f64fe07749d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:57:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_83cf26e6a43d4b10a5d394985fc8fa6d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_800,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Wars End]]></title><description><![CDATA[A final word about the Ukraine War - and then I'll shut up and switch (for a while) to something else in future posts.  It 's hard to see how this bitter conflict will end given the present stalemate on the battlefield and the unwillingness of both sides to compromise on their most cherished aims - albeit Moscow, the aggressor, is still demanding Ukrainian territory which it looks increasingly unlikely to conquer (if it could ever have done). If we look at the two world wars of the 20th...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/how-wars-end</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69986539cfe5ca6eb0c3b002</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:22:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_aafb94b9d7884a7893b2af7403f8b6cc~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's Holocaust?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. What's memorialised here is what we have become used to calling 'The Holocaust', by which is meant the deliberate extermination of some six million European Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. But this very particular term (with its emphatic 'The'  prefix and capital H) has only really been around since the 1970s and '80s, which was when it first entered public discourse, having been until then largely the...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/who-s-holocaust</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6978a95e5217ba96c14deb76</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:49:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_9069efc2eb654fd88526c6965e5f56a7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Long's A War?]]></title><description><![CDATA[On January 11, 2026, it was reported that the full-scale war in Ukraine had now lasted 1,418 days - matching the duration of the German-Soviet war on the eastern front that began with Hitler's invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941. It's worth adding that in less than 150 days time, therefore, the Ukrainian conflict will have lasted as long as the First World War (1,569 days).  None of this will be any comfort to the long-suffering victims of this seemingly intractable struggle: why should...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/how-long-s-a-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6967da64f1ba376a5bc340d4</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:00:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_f497cb6fa4174db585921e7bfa40222b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_950,h_744,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carrying The Torch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eighty-three years ago - to be precise, between November 8 and November 16, 1942 - the first joint Anglo-American amphibious beach landings of the Second World War were launched.  This  also marked the first major blooding of the Americans in combat against the Axis powers - not in Europe but in the Vichy French-occupied North African territories of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The landings were codenamed Operation Torch  and, though a vast flotilla of ships and landing craft (300 warships...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/carrying-the-torch</link><guid isPermaLink="false">691221615a897d6710c9b97d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:08:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_36b5439f42a04f6dbf533035e9a9471e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_950,h_581,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death By Numbers]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the key narratives of the current Ukraine war is the staggering scale of Russian losses on the battlefield, not just of their troops but their military hardware as well. Losses, moreover, for very little gain, territorially or otherwise. How and why this has occurred is an interesting question but it's not my primary focus here. Rather I want to say a word about these losses in the context of other Russian wars in the modern era. It's been calculated (in a recent report by the Centre...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/death-by-numbers-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68f0fac666819d6ab95e5f10</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:12:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_93f7f4c4612344649938b7e7da4c120c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_440,h_236,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[United We Stand, Divided We...]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the United Nations assembles in New York this week, eight decades after its founding in 1945, all the signs are that the organisation...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/united-we-stand-divided-we</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d41d42736eb5b065cf6b1e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:22:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_45c69f77196b4e7e9de8a52d76e47ad5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_779,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apocalypse On The Vistula]]></title><description><![CDATA[August 1944, 81 years ago, saw a terrible tragedy played out on the banks of the Vistula during what we know today as the Warsaw...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/apocalypse-on-the-vistula</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689ddf646aa481be49229508</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:35:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_86468c9ad3a245dd9158df249b98c235~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_794,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tokyo Endgame: 'No Surrender But...']]></title><description><![CDATA[As we approach the 80th anniversary of Victory Over Japan (VJ) Day on 15 August, the exact manner of, and motivation for, Japan's...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/tokyo-endgame-no-surrender-but</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6892182ebb9ceade70e0cc3a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:58:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_3395a2ce869a46999ce3a4f3d61f792c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_970,h_790,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SUMMER MADNESS]]></title><description><![CDATA[As we bask in (or seek the shade from) Europe's recurrent heatwaves this summer, I am reminded of an earlier summer - to be more precise,...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/summer-madness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">686d24c8d21bf4fa3931c6d4</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:55:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_bee00a0afff8433fa0c010a5249b9fae~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_874,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bombs Away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today bombing has a very different form from even the quite recent past. In the Russia-Ukraine war, and now in the very recent conflict...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/bombs-away</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6853cecfc2b68b3576ce8763</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:13:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_4f6e7cbc3ee14758be29bd38b20b921a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_800,h_596,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Syndrome]]></title><description><![CDATA[Given the prominence today of China as a global power, it's a surprise to learn that the country was not admitted to the UN and the...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/china-syndrome</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68384da56be3ccb4d3fb86b8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 11:01:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_5f15272a4d1b4daa99bf882b9d0f1232~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VE Day: Third Time Lucky]]></title><description><![CDATA[On May 9, in Moscow's Red Square, military parades marked VE Day for the Russians. But how come when the Germans actually surrendered on...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/ve-day-third-time-lucky</link><guid isPermaLink="false">681ded6e2d8811f07a25e6b4</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 18:05:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_f9287fadcee6419ba2bf0d3060fda870~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_810,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carry ON Up The Elbe]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today (25 April) marks Elbe Day, the date in 1945 when American and Red Army soldiers met each other for the first time on the banks of...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/carry-on-up-the-elbe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">680b766979871879a1e21d51</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:17:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_7c399248dd3c44a6915f63b8d8b02eb9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Prussia To Russia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, a tiny territory that is home to Russia's Baltic fleet and a nuclear-capable missile force, has long...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/from-prussia-to-russia</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67f692554f0456bc835ed41a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:39:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_e62d33475b5147e6861ba194d38a4a83~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Betrayal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mass deportations of illegal immigrants currently under way in Trump's America - a process that seems both brutal and carelessly...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/the-great-betrayal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67ec27f03f5e1704aa74e158</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:34:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_0650cbd445f14807bc3c51c434d11f38~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_793,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is America really as weak as the Trumpian MAGA rhetoric proclaims. History tells a very different story.]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/trump-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67c9a9bab1797c58cda3d3e0</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:27:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_953ff6a176804112930502d4a7d88220~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_829,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steal The Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump's apparent appeasement of Putin in the Ukraine peace talks is less Munich 1938 than Moscow 1939.]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/steal-the-deal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67bb41cabb65c92eab0e4ecd</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:47:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_69333405f16c4408a1ab84bcf89d44e9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holocaust Home Truths]]></title><description><![CDATA[As we approach Holocaust Day and the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, a few...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/post/holocaust-home-truths</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67936890372f861c2253ef0a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:17:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_87a2875e7c73430ebdedd75f5cd2251d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_861,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Résolutions du Nouvel An]]></title><description><![CDATA[Traditionnellement, le Nouvel An est le moment où l'on prend de nouvelles résolutions en prévision d'un avenir meilleur.  En temps de...]]></description><link>https://fabulousbakerboys1.wixsite.com/unknownwarriorspod/fr/post/r%C3%A9solutions-du-nouvel-an</link><guid isPermaLink="false">677c1cf1e80fb04de9430f31</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:12:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/2eba5d_13b9468e6c504bd6ae17789c38a6673e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_600,h_424,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michael Baker</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>