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Mayne the SAS & the VC That Never Was

Mayne the SAS & the VC That Never Was

Damien Lewis’ latest book delves into the actions of the SAS in France and Paddy Mayne’s bravery.
Damien Lewis

Mayne the SAS & the VC Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne and a core of stalwarts were unwilling to let the history of this proud unit die with its dissolution. Instead, they took the Chronik of Schneeren town, unscrewed the brass bolts that held its spine together, removed the...

Military Maverick – Selected Letters and War Diary Of ‘Chink’ Dorman Smith, by Lavinia Greacen

Military Maverick – Selected Letters and War Diary Of ‘Chink’ Dorman Smith, by Lavinia Greacen

This book is a fascinating insight into the mind of a far thinking officer with, in many respects, a brilliant mind.
Gordon Corrigan

Military Maverick – Selected Letters and War Diary Of ‘Chink’ Dorman Smith, by Lavinia Greacen As the only candidate, before or since, ever to have achieved 100% in the tactics paper in the entrance examination for the army Staff College Eric Dorman-Smith ought...

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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Phil Craig

Phil Craig

The bestselling historian discusses his history, influences and his latest book.
Phil Craig

What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I was a 60s child and brought up on Airfix models, the Air Training Corps and Victor comics, so the Second World War obsessed me, especially the Battle of Britain. When I was about 40 the BBC asked me to...

The Battle for Aachen

The Battle for Aachen

The battle of Aachen was one of the hardest fought of the war, and destroyed much of the city, though thankfully not the cathedral.
Philip W. Blood

Writing the history of one’s hometown is no small feat, even after living and studying its history for 25 years. Aachen became my home in October 1999, when I was invited to teach at RWTH-Aachen University during my PhD studies. The university was already an esteemed...

History at a Precipice: 1923

History at a Precipice: 1923

Did the Weimar Republic fall in isolation, or could the imperial powers of France and Britain have been a little more helpful to a struggling democracy?
Mark Jones

History at a Precipice: 1923 Few topics are as important as ‘rise of the Nazis’. How did a man like Hitler, a loner with few friends and followers, end up becoming German Chancellor and Führer of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictatorship? The Weimar Republic is...

Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter

Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter

This is a book about much more than a house. It’s a book about the headquarters of a resistance movement.
Alec Marsh

Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter You may have read all 911 pages, excluding notes or index, of Roy Jenkin’s magisterial biography of Winston Churchill, which after 20 years remains incredibly sound. There is also a good chance that you’ve read Andrew Robert’s...

Churchill’s Citadel

Churchill’s Citadel

Churchill’s rural idyll at Chartwell became a campaign headquarters that changed the course of history.
Katherine Carter

Churchill’s Citadel When Winston Churchill saw a house on a hill called Chartwell, it was love at first sight, but not with the house itself. It was the landscape, first seen by him on a beautiful summer’s day in 1921, that captivated him. Its situation on a hillside,...

I Am André, by Diana Mara Henry

I Am André, by Diana Mara Henry

An important and fascinating story written in considerable detail.

Alex Gerlis

January 2025 will be the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, a single event which has come to symbolise the Holocaust. No-one could claim that in the eighty years since there’s been a shortage of literature on the Holocaust: a search on...