History, Politics And Current Affairs

Nick Sumner wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:19 pm

jemhouston wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:07 pm
I'm wondering if the Montanas would have gotten the King Nimitz modification of the Iowas.

If you have a minute check out the USN Appendix on the Drake's Drum website. The follow on class to the Montanas (the Wyoming BB72 class) get the King/Nimitz mods that we might have seen in BB65 Illinois and BB66 Kentucky if they had been completed.

Thank you.

Nick Sumner wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:14 pm

Belushi TD wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:15 pm Purely from a personal curiosity standpoint, how did you create the Montana pictures? I assume they're a modified shot of an Iowa class?

Also - IN regards to your kind offer, my birthday is coming up at the end of April, and I hope to receive the Drake's Drum set at that point. I'll be certain to PM you the requested photo once I get the books!

Belushi TD

They are modified in Photoshop from pictures of Iowa class battleships.

My compliments on the shopping. I didn't take out a magnifying glass or anything, but I think you did a very good job putting them together like that.

Belushi TD

Three Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

L to R

Roy Jenkins (Liberal) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 5/4/1976–22/4/80.
Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 22/4/80–15/2/91.
Dr. David Owen (Liberal) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 26/5/94–2/12/02.

I’m very pleased to announce the release of the first three books in the Drake’s Drum series as hardbacks. They are available exclusively through the Drake’s Drum website.

https://www.drakesdrum.co.uk/

When I was young and dinosaurs roamed the earth, a book’s progress would be hardback, softback, e-book. Now it’s the other way round. I have no explanation for that.

Book 4, Drake’s Drum: Horizon of Our Hopes, will be released in hardback next year.

Cover and spine from book 1 below.

Book 2 cover and spine

Book 3 cover and spine