The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The Rise and Fall of the British Army by Ben Barry This detailed though eminently accessible and readable book demonstrates that without an extensive land-based war fighting capability the UK would not have been able to respond to the range and extent of challenges...
Opening The Gates of Hell - Review For many of us Operation Barbarossa reaches its point of maximum impact with the relentless siege of Leningrad and the battle of Stalingrad. These two cornerstones in our awareness remind us of the extent of the German advance in...
John, congratulations on the new book, In For The Kill. Sergeant Harris returns after Target Arnhem. What has happened between the two books? Thank you, Ollie. In For The Kill the third book in the Manner of Men series, begins just over a week after the conclusion of...
Imagine driving along a quiet countryside road in England or Germany. It is a sunny day, and the surroundings are calm, with only the sound of the car’s engine, birdsong, and the occasional gust of wind. Then you see a detour near a town or in a remote area pointing...
Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryLucy Ashe Author of The Sleeping BeautiesThe Eights is Joanna Miller’s debut novel that combines fascinating historical research with the creation of four compelling female characters, The Eights is set at St Hugh’s College, Oxford,...
Since the end of the Second World War the Third Reich and the characters of its leaders have been dissected, dismembered, analysed, scrutinised, evaluated, judged and generally examined producing a plethora of books, some academic and scholarly, some populist, some...
This book is a marvellous read, emotional and yet educative, clearly the result of extensive research, and you have a particular interest in British and German history. But one wonders, what sparked the idea for such work? Thank you, that’s very kind of you to say!...
Marc, many congrats on the new book. It seems this is a book a long time coming – at least for me since Saving Private Ryan so outrageously dismissed British and Canadian efforts on D-Day. What was your motivation to write the book? Two primary motives, as outlined in...
Views on age and life’s milestones have changed over time. In the last century average life expectancy exceeded what we would call middle age for the first time and in the process changed perspectives. Empress Matilda, one of the subjects of Eighteen, married Henry V...
Not every distinguished historian announces his arrival by the roar of a V8 engine, but Robin Prior is no ordinary historian and - for me at least - this was to be no ordinary lunch. I was planning a new book, the final volume in my Finest Hour trilogy about Britain...
