Well….that’s that. Now it has to go out into the world! #BattleOfTheSeineBay @jo_godfrey @yalepress @YaleBooks

I have now reached 20 August. Le Havre fell on 12 September and that’s when I’m calling the #BattleOfTheSeineBay over! Then it’s conclusion, big tidy up and submit <eek>

Nearly time to work through my Whatabout list for #BattleOfTheSeineBay 🤣 Any other #authors #historians have one of those? Basically it lists things which are TOTALLY peripheral but if you don’t reference them people on Amazon will go ‘but what about…x? He never included THAT!’

Today I mapped out “On to Le Havre”, the last chapter of #BattleOfTheSeineBay It’s quite a milestone, this book has been part of my life for three years and now it really does feel like it’s coming to an end! Image of HMS Warspite IWM A23916 @jo_godfrey @YaleBooks

#TheOtherSideOfTheHill #BattleOfTheSeineBay

Guess where I’m up to? #BattleOfTheSeineBay @Sweepers3945 (obviously this is not ALL the sources!)

The only marginally curated (honestly) madness of an author at work. @jo_godfrey @YaleBooks @yalepress #BattleOfTheSeineBay #BattleOfTheStudy Clearly this doesn’t show the files and files of digital documents…!

Finding the same man taking part in the #BattleoftheSeineBay whose story I told in #CoastalConvoys twelve years ago is genuinely like renewing an old friendship. #GreatestGeneration @jo_godfrey

Forgotten part of the complex jigsaw making up the @RoyalNavy #DDay story. HMS Narborough on weather reporting duty. ‘We went some 600 miles out to become a weather station...we went round and round in the Atlantic…the whole of May we were doing this work.’ #BattleoftheSeineBay