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Target Arnhem: John McKay Interviewed by Alan Bardos

Target Arnhem: John McKay Interviewed by Alan Bardos

Alan Bardos interviews John McKay about the WWII tale Target Arnhem and the blending of historical events with fiction.

John, congratulations on the publication of your new novel Target Arnhem. It’s a great World War II story, combining battlefield action with a nail biting espionage plot. Could you tell us a bit about the different storylines? Thank you Alan. This is the second book...

Reinhard Heydrich: The Man With The Iron Heart

Reinhard Heydrich: The Man With The Iron Heart

Himmler’s deputy and Hitler’s favourite was the architect of the Holocaust and a ruthless Nazi responsible for the Einsatzgruppen.
Nigel Jones

Amidst stiff competition from his fellow tyrants Reinhard Heydrich has a strong claim to be the 20th century’s most evil monster: even an awed Adolf Hitler called him ‘the man with the Iron heart’. For when this tall blonde epitome of the Nazi Aryan ideal was...

Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview

Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview

Alice Loxton is history’s social media phenomenon. Now she’s written a book about eighteen figures throughout British history and their lives at that age, and she met with our editor recently.
Alice Loxton

Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview   Alice, I wondered what were you doing when you were when you were 18? I probably had a pretty conventional 18 year old life, I think, in that I was just completing my A-levels and was looking to university. I was very...

Diana Mara Henry on I Am André

Diana Mara Henry on I Am André

Journalist and author Diana Mara Henry discusses the story of ‘André’ Joseph Scheinmann and the process behind her new book.
Diana Mara Henry

Diana, many congratulations on your new book, the story of ‘André’ Joseph Scheinmann. How did you find out about this extraordinary man? His son and I were classmates at Harvard, though we never met at university there. When Michel discovered, in our 25th reunion...

A Suspicion of Spies, by Tim Spicer

A Suspicion of Spies, by Tim Spicer

A biography of the spy Biffy Dunderdale offers an invaluable insight into the key role he played in MI6.

Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale often features as a daring bit-part player in World War II espionage books, but now this extraordinary character takes centre stage in Tim Spicer’s insightful biography. Dunderdale was an iron fist in a velvet glove. He combined charm with...

I Am André

I Am André

After three decades of research, Diana Mara Henry discovers the man behind the aliases.
Diana Mara Henry

I Am André Cher Camarade ... mon capitaine ... mon lieutenant ... Monsieur Le Neveu ... 31AQ ... MI6 #99421 ... #4368 at Natzweiler and #101739 at Dachau ... Martin ... Turquoise ... interprète ... Herr Dolmetscher ... 0419064, French Liaison Officer ... Agent from C...

Turkey: Birth of a Nation

Turkey: Birth of a Nation

The fall of the Ottoman Empire saw the rise of Turkey, now a major player in European and Middle East affairs.

At its greatest extant under the rule of Suleyman the Magnificent in the 1500s, the Ottoman Empire ran from the walls of Vienna (to which it laid siege in 1529 all the way across eastern Europe and the Middle East to Baghdad and Basra. From Algiers the tughra of the...

Jonestown: Paradise Undone

Jonestown: Paradise Undone

The victims of the mass suicide were not crazy, but well-meaning idealists, many of whom were from poverty stricken cities.
Annie Dawid

Jonestown: Paradise Undone “The first body I saw was off to the side, alone. Five more steps and I saw another and another and another; hundreds of bodies. The Newsweek reporter was walking around saying, “I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it.” Another guy said,...

France in the Second World War: An Enduring Myth

France in the Second World War: An Enduring Myth

Author Alex Gerlis describes the challenges of writing about a particularly brutal war that is often misunderstood.

I’ve written extensively on the Second World War in Europe. My eleven books may be works of fiction but the plots are all based around real events that unfolded during the war. That history and the locations I use are all carefully researched. I scrupulously avoid...

Between the Clouds and the River, by Dave Mason

Between the Clouds and the River, by Dave Mason

Between the Clouds and the River is a sweeping and moving tale of life, love, loss and everything in between.
Ella Beales

Between the Clouds and the River is Dave Mason’s latest historical fiction, with a dual timeline narrative set between 1942 and 1965. Spanning continents and decades, this book is a sweeping and moving tale of life, love, loss and everything in between. In 1942,...