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Pirate Irwin

Pirate Irwin is a journalist with Agence France Presse (AFP) and has been based in Paris for over 16 years having initially arrived for just a six month summer stay. Like the old airline advert it was so good he couldn't get off! Married to elegant and vibrant French lady Florence, Pirate is the author of the Lafarge detective novels. His latest is The Redeemed Detective.

Pirate Irwin

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Aspects of History Book of the Year: Conflict

Our Book of the Year is Conflict, by General David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts.

Richard Foreman

As readers and fans of the site will know, Aspects of History runs a Books of the Year feature each December. There is often a history book which stands out for our board and contributors, such as The World by Simon Sebag-Montefiore and The White Ship by Charles...

Books of 2023 From Aspects of History

Our authors and contributors recommend books they've enjoyed this year

Books of 2023 from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyMy book of the year is SAS Forged in Hell. The next instalment of Damien Lewis’ WW II odyssey with the men of 1 SAS, as they become the ‘tip of the spear’ in the invasion of Sicily...

Elizabeth and Philip, by Tessa Dunlop

This splendid book provides a fresh perspective on a well-known story.

Nicola Cornick

As Tessa Dunlop says in her introduction, when she began to write Elizabeth and Philip, she did not expect the story to end so definitively with Queen Elizabeth’s death, despite her great age. The monarch had lost her husband of seventy-three years in 2021; he had...

Politics & War: Lawrence Freedman Interview

Lawrence Freedman has examined the personalities and circumstances involved in wars from Korea to Ukraine in a new book. Our editor discussed some of those conflicts, and characters, that defined the latter half of the 20th century.

Oliver Webb-Carter

Lawrence Freedman, what were there certain criteria you used to pick the conflicts that are in the book? The starting point was first that I was going to look at post 1945. So that was the big decision. There's lots of stuff written about command in the World Wars...

Bunkeya, by A P Handley

Gripping, well-crafted and ironically unpredictable.

Jack Ayre

Bunkeya is the first ever instalment of A P Handley’s Danny Rook secret history series. In the genesis of this enthralling secret history, we are introduced to seventeen-year-old wonderkid, Danny Rook, who against his family's wishes, leaves his comfortable, albeit...

How the Russians See Themselves

With Putin’s pronouncements on his nuclear threat, this is consistent with previous rulers’ sabre rattling, and speaks to Russia’s pride in how it sees itself. Sir Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow from 1989 to 1992, describes the Russian mindset.

Rodric Braithwaite

How the Russians See Themselves If you want to work out what your opponent is likely to do next, you need to understand how he sees himself. During the Cold War our judgement of Soviet behaviour was often distorted by prejudice, ignorance, and wishful thinking....

Roger Moorhouse on The Forgers

Sara Hughes discusses Roger Moorhouse's new book - the story of a group of Polish diplomats who saved hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust.

Roger Moorhouse

Roger, firstly, can you tell us a little bit about the origins of your latest book? Who were the forgers and how did you find out about their story? The forgers were a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists – known as the Ładoś Group – who were illegally...

Richard Greene on the Graham Greene Festival

Spy thriller writer Thomas Waugh chats with the director of the International Graham Greene Festival that begins this month.

Thomas Waugh

Richard Greene, you have been appointed as the Director for the 24th Graham Greene International Festival. Can you tell us a bit about the festival and your role? The festival, taking place this year from September 28 – October 1, is a gathering of Graham Greene...

A P Handley on Tabarin

The author of the Danny Rook series discusses the fourth novel, set during the Falklands War.

A P Handley

A P Handley, your last novel was Tabarin. I’ve never heard that word before. Where did you get the title? Well, as I understand it, before the war there was a night club in Paris with the same name, so although I pronounce my book ‘Tabar‑in’, I guess the French would...