The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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...
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...
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...
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...
A few words about the title of the book: Those Must Be The Guards. In March 1919 the Guards marched through London as part of the great victory parade. The Times reported rather grandly on the event: ‘A joyous welcome to the Guards ….. fighting through to the end and...
Battlefield Casualty Evacuation For as long as people have fought wars, there has been a need to evacuate and treat wounded soldiers, a process widely known today as “casevac.” Systems of care for wounded soldiers appeared very early in human history. Evidence from...
Double Victoria Cross Winners The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award for valour, in the presence of the enemy, awarded in the United Kingdom. Created in 1856 by Queen Victoria, it has only ever been awarded 1,358 times, of which 295 were awarded posthumously....
For military historians the top of the academic greasy pole is the Chichele Chair of The History of War at Oxford, and so one would expect any work emanating from that source to be the definitive work of its subject. Iron and Blood by Professor Peter H. Wilson is...
Music, history and clowning around. What more could your ask for on a winter's night? Southwark Playhouse is currently hosting a production of Joan Littlewood's Oh What A Lovely War. The play is a romp through the First World War, full of satire and old songs - told...
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...
