{"id":620,"date":"2019-01-10T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T12:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2019-01-10T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T12:45:40","slug":"operation-colossus-book-finished-just-tweaks-to-be-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Operation Colossus book finished&#8230;just tweaks to be made."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lawrencepaterson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1941-front-page-daily-mirror-british-paratroopers-land-in-southern-fwp6bk.jpg?resize=413%2C520\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lawrencepaterson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1941-front-page-daily-mirror-british-paratroopers-land-in-southern-fwp6bk.jpg?w=413&amp;ssl=1 413w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lawrencepaterson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1941-front-page-daily-mirror-british-paratroopers-land-in-southern-fwp6bk.jpg?resize=238%2C300&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lawrencepaterson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1941-front-page-daily-mirror-british-paratroopers-land-in-southern-fwp6bk.jpg?resize=48%2C60&amp;ssl=1 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The book about Britain&#8217;s first parachute operation has been handed in to Greenhill and should be out later this year. <br><br>It&#8217;s been a really interesting story to get into and I&#8217;m hoping it will be the most detailed account of the operation, its  genesis and aftermath, that there is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been interesting to see the amount that some writings on the subject have slightly incorrect, relying too heavily on secondary sources that become the &#8216;verbatim&#8217; history used from that point on. That&#8217;s a tricky one for all writers of non-fiction history: there is a ton of secondary source material, but you have to look for flaws, just in case. Plus, even first-hand accounts can come adrift from what actually happened &#8211; especially when the events took place so many decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, the book is done. Carrying on with Volume Two of the Luftwaffe Maritime Operations.    <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book about Britain&#8217;s first parachute operation has been handed in to Greenhill and should be out later this year.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lawrencepaterson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1941-front-page-daily-herald-british-paratroopers-land-in-southern-fwp6bp.jpg?fit=416%2C268&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wRQt-a0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawrencepaterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}