The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Bomb Group is a compelling story of one unit’s part in the ferocious air battles of 1943 to 1945 that raged over northern Europe, focusing primarily on the human stories that resulted. Assigned to the Eighth Air Force, and equipped initially with Boeing B-17F Flying...
Jack Bowsher, many congrats on your new book. As the title suggests, the Far East campaign is not particularly well-known for tanks. Why is that? Thank you! Yes, tanks are definitely not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Burma Campaign! There...
Tim Spicer, many congratulations on the new book. What sort of man was Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale? Suave, sophisticated, multi-lingual, highly intelligent, charming but with a core of steel. You mention he was suave and sophisticated but also ruthless. He...
Your book SAS Forged in Hell, tells the story of the part 1 SAS played in the Sicily and Italian campaigns of World War II. Could you start by telling us about the role they carried out under their commander Major Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne in those campaigns, which...
The British Army ended the First World War well trained, well led, well equipped and capable of engaging in all arms intensive warfare. Of all the players, on both sides, this army was unquestionably the most capable of deployment against a first class enemy anywhere...
“I wanted to regain for a few moments the experiences that could be relived only by those men who flew from this field in that long ago time of war,” wrote 62-year-old Texan, John Comer, on his return to his former air base in England in 1972. “We were such ordinary...
1920 Odessa Ukraine. The Russian Civil War is at its height, a young British man working for Naval Intelligence picks up a report from one of his agents. The crew of the Russian submarine OUTKA are going to mutiny and throw their officers overboard. He leads a party...
The battle of the tennis court is one of the most famous actions in the war against Japan. The vicious siege of Kohima in the spring and early summer of 1944 saw the embattled British and Indian garrison of that tiny village in the mountains of Assam (now Nagaland),...
Individuals in conflict can decisively influence the outcome of a battle. Examples abound. Leonidas and his lonely Spartan defence of the narrow pass at Thermopylae in 480 BC against the might of the invading Persian army; an unknown standard bearer from Caesar’s...
Leaving Fatherland is journalist Matt Graydon’s debut novel and begins in Halbe, Germany during the inter-war period and is set against the rise of the Nazis. We are introduced to Oskar Bachmann, a shy schoolboy desperate to gain his father’s approval but often...
