The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
As much as any of the characters in the book, Paris has her own story to tell. During WW2, her citizens suffered enormously under German occupation, with food being severely restricted and even the leather for their shoes reserved for German troops so they had to make...
Three aspects of Britain in the world wars stand out. The first was the reluctance with which Britain entered both wars but then the implacable nature in which it fought them. In the First World War Britain was the last of the Great Powers to enter the war; in the...
In the Second World War Germany lost four million military dead. Three million of those were on the Eastern Front. From June 1941 onwards never fewer than seventy-five percent of German’s land and air assets were on the Eastern Front. In the whole of the war the...
There are many fictional accounts exploring the extreme experiences of the Second World War, but The Woman Outside the Walls brings a unique tale of survival, guilt and regret. With a dual timeline that takes place over almost 90 years, this novel follows the story of...
Suzanne Goldring, congratulations on your new book! How much research do you tend to carry out for your novels, and was The Woman Outside the Walls different? All my books require research which I carry out either by visiting the locations involved or by reading...
Prior to the Cliveden Literary Festival one of its invited speakers, the great Salman Rushdie, suffered an horrific attack in upstate New York. Fortunately, Rushdie is now in recovery, but the brutal assault was a reminder that there are certain authors who really do...
When British troops arrived in Hamburg at the end of the war, they were shocked by the extent of the damage inflicted by Allied bombers in the summer of 1943. Many of them thought the Germans had had it even worse than London with the Blitz. As well as the...
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The renowned Second World War historian, James Holland, has produced an outstanding account of a unit’s campaign across North West Europe from D-Day in June 1944 to VE-Day in May 1945. The subject unit - The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) - was a Territorial Army...
Scotland had a profound impact on Winston Churchill – practically, politically and personally. Practically, it provided the young Liberal politician with a constituency for almost 15 years, five election victories and a platform from which he could launch his cabinet...
