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Alec Marsh on Cut and Run
Alec Marsh on Cut and Run Alec, another book so soon - what's going on? It’s like the rural bus network – you wait for years for one to arrive, and the two turn up at once… The truth is that Cut and Run is a story that I’ve been working on for a very long time. It was...
Books of 2024 From Aspects of History
Books of 2023 from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyIt’s been a great year for fiction and non-fiction, but these books are my first amongst equals. Every Spy a Traitor by Alex Gerlis follows Agent Archie, a Russian mole in MI6 across...
Hugh Fairfax on Fairfax Of Virginia
Hugh, the Fairfax name is most well-known because of the 3rd Lord, Sir Thomas (1612 – 1671), but what are the origins of the family? The Fairfax family is first heard of in the 12th Century with Henry owning land at Askham near York. Like many people in the north of...
AoH Book Club: Gavin Mortimer on The Phoney Major
AoH Book Club: Gavin Mortimer on The Phoney Major Gavin, The Phoney Major changed the conversation when it comes to the founding of the SAS in 1941. How was the book received? I believe it wasn’t very well received in some quarters; not because what I...
The Decline of the British Army Between the Wars
The British Army was catastrophically unprepared for war in 1939. But it wasn’t just the Army that was unprepared. Despite a last-minute rush to re-arm, so too was the whole country. In Britain a deep-seated passivity had set in following the end the Great War. This...
Precipice, by Robert Harris
Robert Harris’ new novel Precipice begins in the long summer of 1914 when Europe sleepwalked into a disastrous war and the stalemate of the Western Front. Harris moves between romance, espionage and political intrigue, placing at the centre of these events the affair...
2024 Summer Reads from Aspects of History
Summer Reads from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of Rising TideMunich Wolf, by Rory Clements is set in 1935 Munich. When the body of a young English socialite is found, Kripo detective Sebastian Wolff is called in to solve the politically sensitive case. The...
Chiselbury
Books Click on any of the books covers below to either buy or get more information on Amazon From the Publisher Chiselbury Publishing was founded 2011 to make the works of James Leasor, one of the bestselling and most prolific British authors of the second half of the...
In Search of Lawrence of Arabia in London
T.E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, is one of the most intriguing individuals of the twentieth century, who remarkably had strong associations with buildings and places in London. At the beginning of the First World War between October to November 1914, he was...