The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
One of our most cherished and favourite authors, Gordon Corrigan, passed in the last week. Gordon was a soldier, broadcaster, historian and friend. He wrote, on a variety of periods and subjects, with both scholarship and style. He was one of our most popular guests...
A great deal of garbage has been written regarding 1950s American murderer and ‘body snatcher’/graverobber Ed Gein. Gein (born in 1906) grew up in Plainfield in Wisconsin under the thumb of an - allegedly - religious zealot of a mother; she was his entire world and...
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There has been, historically, a dearth of books in the English language written specifically about the Maginot Line. Many accounts have been written about the German invasion of the Low Countries, in which the Maginot Line has featured as an ancillary part of that...
"It is with heavy heart that I tell you we have to cease fighting. Last night, I asked our adversary whether he was prepared, between soldiers, after the struggle and in honour, to seek a way to end hostilities." These were the words of France’s new prime minister,...
John – your book, General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat was published nearly two years ago. Can you give us an outline of the life of ‘Pug’ Ismay, a man you describe as ‘an unusual subject for a biography’? Who was he, and provide us with some...
John Reith was a model of late-Victorian rectitude: devout, driven, serious to the point of severity. He was also, in many ways, an appalling man, self-absorbed, obsessed with titles and money, often petty and spiteful, even childish. He was deeply sentimental and a...
Set in East London in 1936, as Oswald Mosley’s fascists prepare to march, Cable Street brings the streets of the East End vividly to life, capturing a community under strain as simmering social and political tensions reach boiling point. The story narrows its focus to...
De Gaulle wrote of Churchill, and might well have written of himself, that he was an ‘artist of history.’ Both men were artists in how they wrote their history, but also lived their lives as thought they were constructing a work of art. They understood that every act...
