https://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mwvjwrs5wu2cChina across both Proportional History volumes: 27% of the war, 95 million displaced. Two books reveal what one cannot. The companion set for readers who want the full picture. https://amzn.to/4swXGBm #WWII #ProportionalHistory02 Oct 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvjwrs5wu2chttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mwvjwm2c3b2vChina across both Proportional History volumes: 27% of the war, 95 million displaced. Two books reveal what one cannot. The companion set for readers who want the full picture. https://amzn.to/4swXGBm #WWII #ProportionalHistory #WWII #ProportionalHistory02 Oct 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvjwm2c3b2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mwt4sjpx552iTHREAD: China gets 27% of every chapter in A Proportional History of World War Two. What does that look like across 74 months? A thread on the war most WWII books barely mention. [1/6] #ProportionalHistory #ChinaWWII #WWII #ProportionalHistory #ChinaWWII #WWII #GlobalHistory01 Oct 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt4sjpx552ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mwekqd23s72jThe Georgian Navy relied on press gangs and flogging. It also won Trafalgar. Can an institution be simultaneously admirable and indefensible? #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #NavalHistory25 Sep 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwekqd23s72jhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mwbjj6oko722RKHS analysis reveals the sailor's prose maintains remarkably consistent semantic density throughout — no dramatic peaks, no valleys. A steady, unadorned witness to daily life afloat. #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #DigitalHumanities24 Sep 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbjj6oko722https://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mw7d3eqh7n2xThis memoir covers the Georgian Navy — the force that fought Trafalgar. The popular image of Nelson's navy is heroic. The reality described here is more complicated. #NavalClassics #NavalHistory #NavalClassics #NavalHistory23 Sep 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7d3eqh7n2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mw4lxn5gno2vThe sailor describes the press gang that took him: no warning, no appeal, no choice. One moment a civilian, the next Crown property. This was how the Navy filled its ranks. #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #PrimarySource22 Sep 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4lxn5gno2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mw4faphwgi2tSeptember 1941: Three months before Pearl Harbor. The war already involves 1.5 billion people. America's entry will add 130 million — important, but proportionally, the war is already enormous without the US. #ProportionalHistory #WWII #ProportionalHistory #WWII #HistoryTwitter22 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4faphwgi2thttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mvzurdmpca26A Sailor of King George — press gangs, grog, flogging, and the wooden world of the Age of Nelson. 434 annotated pages of Georgian naval life. ISBN 9781608885541. #NavalClassics #NavalHistory #NavalClassics #NavalHistory #WarshipsAndNavies21 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvzurdmpca26https://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mvto6sij5c2gORBITAL ENTENTE is a deep dive into Chinese-Russian space security cooperation, especially timely in the context of the recent USAF announcement that the US has deployed "space control weapons" on orbit. link.amazon/B0iJxTWOm https://link.amazon/B0iJxTWOm19 Sep 2026 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvto6sij5c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mvsdeux5b52tThe WWII volume gives China 27% of the war. The DP volume gives China 95 million displaced. Two books, one method, one question: what happens when you count everyone? #DisplacedPeoples #WWII #China https://amzn.to/4lclk3H18 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsdeux5b52thttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mvsderz75r2vThe WWII volume gives China 27% of the war. The DP volume gives China 95 million displaced. Two books, one method, one question: what happens when you count everyone? #DisplacedPeoples #WWII #China https://amzn.to/4lclk3H #DisplacedPeoples #WWII #China18 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsderz75r2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mvdalhacom2uMonth 4 follow-up: where RKHS stops working. Long causal chains, counterfactual consistency, arithmetic over plot constraints — embeddings struggle. LLMs pick up. The division of labor, worked through. https://amzn.to/4mDndXL · http://bigfivekiller.online/books/9781608885350/12 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdalhacom2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mvbe7sirfz2sA midshipman watched wooden navies become iron ones in seven years. We are living through a comparable transition — autonomous systems replacing crewed platforms. What parallels do you see? #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #NavalHistory11 Sep 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbe7sirfz2shttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mv6d5fheav2vRKHS analysis finds this memoir's novelty curve peaks during technical descriptions of new technology — the midshipman was most engaged when describing things he had never seen before. #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #DigitalHumanities10 Sep 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6d5fheav2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mv44lqb27r2hThe 1850s Royal Navy was midway between Trafalgar and Dreadnought. This memoir captures the exact moment when everything changed — steam, armor, rifled guns. All within seven years. #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #NavalHistory09 Sep 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv44lqb27r2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3muzfhf7vfz2zThe midshipman recalls the first time he saw an ironclad alongside a wooden ship-of-the-line. One was the future, one was the past. Everyone aboard knew it. #NavalClassics #PrimarySource #NavalClassics #PrimarySource08 Sep 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzfhf7vfz2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3muwoaarjcg2hA Middy's Recollections 1853-1860 — a midshipman's memoir from the age when sail gave way to steam. 234 annotated pages. ISBN 9781608885589. #NavalClassics #NavalHistory #WarshipsAndNavies #NavalClassics #NavalHistory #WarshipsAndNavies07 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwoaarjcg2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mupnls7v5e27The The Arms Race at Sea arc continues. Surface Fleet Illusions: Soviet Carriers and Cruisers — 310 pages of declassified analysis, annotated by Rickover AI. #ColdWarIntel #SovietNavy #DeclassifiedCIA #NavalStrategy04 Sep 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupnls7v5e27https://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mup4w3om752nSept 2, 1945: WWII ended. The displacement didn't. Read both volumes together -- the war and its human cost. A Proportional History of WWII: https://amzn.to/4swXGBm Displaced Peoples: https://amzn.to/4lclk3H #WWII #ProportionalHistory #WWII #ProportionalHistory04 Sep 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup4w3om752nhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mup4v54t5623Sept 2, 1945: WWII ended. The displacement didn't. Read both volumes together -- the war and its human cost. A Proportional History of WWII: https://amzn.to/4swXGBm Displaced Peoples: https://amzn.to/4lclk3H #WWII #ProportionalHistory04 Sep 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup4v54t5623https://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3muhvjqpzdf2sArc spotlight: The Arms Race at Sea. Surface Fleet Illusions: Soviet Carriers and Cruisers is one of 3 volumes revealing how CIA understood Soviet naval power. #ColdWarIntel #SovietNavy #DeclassifiedCIA #NuclearSubmarines01 Sep 2026 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhvjqpzdf2shttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3muaobeaaba2rWhat surprised CIA analysts most about the Soviet Navy? Surface Fleet Illusions: Soviet Carriers and Cruisers reveals the classified answer. 310 pages. $49.99. #ColdWarIntel #SovietNavy #DeclassifiedCIA #Gorshkov29 Aug 2026 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muaobeaaba2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mu65sj5kxe2tO'Brian modeled Jack Aubrey on Cochrane. Having read the source material, do you think fiction improved on reality — or was reality already stranger? #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #NavalHistory28 Aug 2026 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu65sj5kxe2thttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mu34j5g2xh25RKHS analysis of Cochrane's biography shows the prose shifting from defensive justification to triumphant narrative as the story moves from disgrace to liberation campaigns. #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #DigitalHumanities27 Aug 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu34j5g2xh25https://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mu2z3fn76z2yAugust 15 was the anniversary of both Japan's surrender and India's Partition. Victory and displacement on the same date. The war's end was not an end to displacement. It was a change of mechanism. #DisplacedPeoples #WWII #ProportionalHistory27 Aug 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2z3fn76z2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mtyw75exre2qCochrane was court-martialed in 1814, struck from the Navy list, and expelled from Parliament. He then spent 15 years liberating South American and European nations from colonial rule. #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #NavalHistory26 Aug 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyw75exre2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mtysr4oxr32iRickover AI editorial on Surface Fleet Illusions: Soviet Carriers and Cruisers: The intelligence gaps these documents reveal shaped Cold War submarine strategy for a generation. #ColdWarIntel #SovietNavy #DeclassifiedCIA #ColdWar26 Aug 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtysr4oxr32ihttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mtw6yadlwy2zCochrane captured a Spanish frigate by rowing up to it in the dark with 300 men. His career reads like fiction because fiction was modeled on it. #NavalClassics #PrimarySource #NavalClassics #PrimarySource25 Aug 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtw6yadlwy2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/fredzannarbor.bsky.social/post/3mtthpkbcjb2kLord Cochrane — the real-life inspiration for Jack Aubrey. Court-martialed, exiled, then liberator of Chile, Peru, Brazil, and Greece. Vol. II, 212 pages. ISBN 9781608885602. #NavalClassics #NavalClassics #NavalHistory #WarshipsAndNavies24 Aug 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:bhcqvmj33fqiisgl5gc2knrt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtthpkbcjb2k