The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
LBJ’s Flawed Plan When President Johnson weighed sending American troops, aircraft, and ships to Vietnam in 1965, Korea was foremost in his mind. The Korean War had sunk the Truman presidency, and President Eisenhower had ended that war only by threatening to use...
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Novels set during the Troubles have done well in recent years. Whether it’s the Booker Prize winning Milkman by Anna Burns or Michael Hughes’ re-interpretation of the Iliad with Country, writers have found new ways to deal with a hugely traumatic time in British and...
The Deadly World War II Mission Over the Roof of the World At seventeen thousand feet and halfway from India to China, pilot Joseph Dechene had lost both his aircraft’s engines to ice. His lumbering C-46 cargo plane was now a glider. With white, ice-laden clouds...
The Secretary is a thrilling examination of the deadly unease in 1958 Moscow during the Cold War, from the rare perspective of a female MI6 operative. Lois Vale is tasked with the deep-cover mission of unearthing a suspected mole lurking in the British embassy,...
She dropped her aitches but picked up every note, sparkled more than the gems on her gown - and was a pitch perfect blend of fierceness and fineness. Kirsty King, playing Eliza Doolittle, lit up the stage in a new adaptation of My Fair Lady at The Questors Theatre in...
Deborah Lawrenson on The Secretary What drew you to the Cold War era specifically, 1958 Moscow, as the setting for The Secretary? Growing up around the world as an embassy child, I was always aware that my parents were living an unusual and interesting life. My...
David, your novel follows a British battalion on its tour of Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Why did you want to write about this difficult period in British and Irish history? To some extent the Troubles are a forgotten ‘war’ and quite unlike almost any...
As we approach the 80th anniversary of VE Day in May, the risk of losing undocumented personal stories of the Second World War grows ever stronger. This is why Bryan Wiles’ debut novel The Chocolate Suitcase is such a remarkable achievement. For many years, Wiles was...
Herstory: An Aspects of History Anthology Women’s history is often being turned over, reevaluated, rediscovered, and retold as we understand further how stereotypes at the time heavily influenced how women were remembered. This is opening our eyes to forgotten figures...
