The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Barney Campbell, on The Fires of Gallipoli Barney, many congrats in the new novel. This is your second after the acclaimed Rain which was set during the conflict in Afghanistan. Now with The Fires of Gallipoli you’ve written about the Great War. This was a hugely...
Jim Loughran, what first attracted you to the 1930s and beyond? The 1930’s were a turning point. I think back to my own mother who was born in 1911 when the German, Austrian, Russian and Ottoman empires still stood. The Second World War created a definitive break with...
Few people have ever heard of him. Yet he was successively: Churchill`s chief staff officer throughout the Second World War; chief of staff to the last British viceroy of India during the Partition in 1947; a cabinet minister when Churchill returned to power in 1951;...
Gallipoli and the Death of Innocence in the First World War Much ink has been spilled over Gallipoli, the ill-fated attempt by British, Empire and French troops in 1915 to force the Dardanelles straits and so open up a route for the Royal Navy to enter the sea of...
The Imperial War Museum has started a series of events to coincide with the unveiling of the new Second World War Galleries at their London headquarters. Celebrities (and two experts) take visitors on a tour of how their families contributed to World War Two, and so...
A Cautionary Tale. Norway, 1940 Campaigns that end in ignominious failure tend to be quickly forgotten. Yet there is often far more to be learned from such operations than from those that were successful. A graphic example is the largely-neglected British campaign in...
Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke Since I was a teenager three periods of history have obsessed me: French history from Louis XIV to the rise of Napoleon, World War 1 and the collapse of empires and the Russian revolution. I have read endless biographies, memoirs and novels....
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FDR & Stalin: The Strategists Stalin as the Worst Strategist Why I argue Stalin is both the Worst and Best war leader is because you need to start with the worst before you get to the best. Stalin, in opting to ally with Hitler in 1939 and sign the Nazi-Soviet...
Helen, Women in Intelligence was very well received when first published. Is this an area of espionage history that is under-developed? Most definitely. It is an area where historians still need to research deeply in declassified files and record what the women did in...
