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Phil Craig

Phil Craig

Phil Craig is a best selling author and multiple-award-winning film-maker, producer and TV network executive.A former RAF cadet pilot, Phil studied history at Cambridge University, was a BBC graduate trainee and built his career working for iconic British current affairs series World in Action and Panorama, where he became senior producer.  Later he became joint head of programmes at the prestigious Brook Lapping production company, where he made a range of contemporary and historical films for the BBC, Channel Four, PBS in America, Discovery, Nat Geo and numerous other international clients. He went on to run departments at the Discovery Channel and at ABC Television in Australia, where he supervised the entire factual output of the national broadcaster including its high profile ANZAC centenary project in 2015.
Phil Craig

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Alec Marsh on Cut and Run

Alec Marsh on Cut and Run

The author returns to tell us about the latest book in his new series.

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 2024 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 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 Fairfax on Fairfax Of Virginia

Author Hugh Fairfax traces the legacy of the Fairfax family’s journey from medieval England to colonial America and back.
Hugh Fairfax

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

We spoke to Gavin Mortimer about the creation, and reception, of our Book Club pick 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 Decline of the British Army Between the Wars

In November 1918 the British Army had achieved victories to rank along any of its predecessors. Just over twenty years later it had been humiliated by the Blitzkrieg of the Wehrmacht.

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

Precipice, by Robert Harris

A compelling narrative that brings to life a little-known historical event.
Alan Bardos

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

2024 Summer Reads from Aspects of History

Our authors and contributors recommend books to take on summer holidays.

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

Chiselbury

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 20th Century, available to new and old readers. It now has the works of over 30 authors, non-fiction and fiction, established bestselling authors and first-timers, in print or nearing publication. In all we have over 80 books in print.
Sharpe Books

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

In Search of Lawrence of Arabia in London

T.E. Lawrence is present in many London locations.
Paul Kendall

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...