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Movies: Contemporary Period 1954-1967

  Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) L’ennemi intime (Intimate enemies) 2007) (Jaap Boender) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825248/ A drama following a French platoon during Algeria’s war of independence.   The Congo Crisis (1961) The Siege of Jadotville (2016) (Jaap Boender) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3922798/?ref_=ttls_li_tt Congo. Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a standoff with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries.   Six-Day […]

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Divided Land: a report on the game’s first outing in Sweden.

As a sort of pre-publicity for Divided Land next April (and as a quick fulfilment of my obligation to write at least one article for MilMud) I thought some of our members might be interested in my own view of what happened during the first playing of the megagame version, in Malmo earlier this year. […]

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