The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Sometimes in life when realization hits, making us aware that we don’t know exactly who we are or how we got there. For some, a life-changing event is the only window to a view of our world in a different light. This is where my story began. A person who had been a...
"Glory to Ukraine!" In 1991, 2004 and 2014, the Maidan in Kyiv was the stage for three major events that etched Ukraine into the European consciousness. These were the fall of the Soviet Union, the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan respectively, the last of which...
Night can hide all manner of monsters, some of them imagined and some of them real. In Blackout, Scarrow vividly brings to life Berlin in 1939. A vibrant cosmopolitan city, confident after Germany’s victory over Poland. However in the depth of a freezing winter, with...
In The Baroness: Unmasking Himmler’s Most Secret Agent, John Lucas employs his investigative journalist’s intuition and delivers an intriguing espionage story. Yet, as he reminds the reader several times, the story of Baroness Anja Bergroth Manfredi de Blasiis is not...
Traitor's Gate was your first foray into historical fiction, and you picked the eve of the Second World War and Nazi Germany. Why was that? After writing eight financial thrillers, I decided I wanted to do something new. A spy thriller intrigued me. I was...
British Heroes of the Holocaust What would I have done? What could I have done? The approach of Holocaust Memorial Day prompts us to remember the millions of victims, their suffering and the brutality and squalor amid which they were murdered. But it should also...
I clearly remember the time I was cycling through the leafy Veluwe woods, some 50 miles from Amsterdam, when I came across an extraordinary place I never knew existed in all the years I’d been taking family holidays in the area. I never realised it at the time, but...
Books of 2021 from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyLaw of Blood is the first in R.N. Morris’s new Empire of Shadows series, featuring magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky. In Law of Blood, Virginsky investigates the murder of a...
The Reckoning is an engaging contribution to scholarship on the Second World War. Pivotally, Buttar rejects the Western-centric view of the ‘Eastern Front’ being a sub-event to the exploits of the Allies in seeking control over the West. Indeed, Buttar insists that...
The geoscience and archaeology joint group that we formed over a quarter century ago is committed to a single goal: applying noninvasive geoscience subsurface mapping and exploration as a prerequisite for every invasive archaeological excavation. Richard Freund Since...
