The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The Forever War One cold spring day early in the writing of this book, I stood in the midst of the main shopping thoroughfare in Bracknell and asked 62 random passers-by whether they had heard of six battles from British history, and the wars in which they were...
The Judgment of Stars, by Jane Thynne The Judgement of Stars is the sixth book in Jane Thynne’s Clara Vine noir thriller series, set in Germany and following a chronology from Black Roses, set in the early 1930s, to The Judgement of Stars in 1942. Clearly, there is...
When a Single British Colony Ruled over a Quarter of Humanity This spring, tensions between India and Pakistan reached their most perilous point in decades. With skirmishes erupting along their shared border and nuclear rhetoric flaring on both sides, the region...
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Paul Beaver, your new book is on Reginald Mitchell, the aviation engineer who designed the Spitfire. What was special about Mitchell? Mitchell was a very special engineer. At Supermarine, he fostered the right balance of experience and innovation, which for a small...
Let’s Get Those Jerries!’: Luftwaffe Airmen and British Captors On a hazy summer’s day in August 1940, a lone German bomber is hurtling uncontrollably towards the ground in the north-east of England; the aircraft whines in protest at the sharp hiding it has just taken...
The History behind the DCI Frank Merlin Books I write a series about a police detective called Frank Merlin working in World War Two London. The sixth in the series, Death Of An Officer, is being published later this month. I am often asked where I get my story ideas...
My recent book Who Will Rescue Us? represents over ten years of historical research on a group of primarily Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany and Austria. The goals of my study were multiple: I wanted to grasp- to the extent possible- what it felt like to be a...
1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World, by Phil Craig How does one make any sense of the end of the Second World War in Asia in 1945, a war that ended just as quickly and unexpectedly as it had begun? Thirty-nine agonizing months separated...
Operation Nightfall, by Karl Wegener The year is 1948. Mankind is still reeling from the effects of WWII. Politics causes mass division. Tyranny threatens to take over. Tensions are high, deception is rife, yet hope persists. Following the events that occurred between...
