Author: Xtended

The Xtended team finally all assemble to talk about 200 episodes of the podcast, recent sad news from the aviation world, Ellie’s trip to Normandy for the D-Day 80th commemorations and more.

Amanda Harrison has always wanted to recreate the footsteps of Amy Johnson, flying solo in a Tiger Moth from the UK to Darwin, Australia in just 20 Days.

Mick Oakey, Robert Forsyth and Chris Gibson come back to the History Round Table to answer listener questions. We discuss what books do not get written, what they would love to read, their proudest work and what do they think about graphics and photos in books and articles.

There is a new podcast focused on RAF Bomber Command in World War Two hosted by writer and military historian Jane Gulliford Lowes and historian and co-host James Jefferies. It is of course ‘Never Mind The Dambusters’! 

Samuel de Korte is a graduate student of Utrecht University, where he studied an MA in the Cultural History of Modern Europe. He wrote his Master’s thesis about the representation of black Americans during the Second World War. His new book ‘Tuskegee Airmen – Dogfighting with the Luftwaffe and Jim Crow’ is published by Pen and Sword.