The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Patrick Bishop and Robert Lyman discuss Operation Jubilee, the subject of Patrick’s new book, costing over 6,000 men, mostly Canadian. Louis Mountbatten played a key role in planning the operation, and it was claimed that lessons were learned for D-Day nearly two...
In 1940 Hitler launched a bombing campaign against London. This blitz as the British press described it, failed to affect British fighting capacity or morale. However, in 1941 many other towns and cities in Britain were also targeted by German bombers, as the emphasis...
Lily, congratulations on your new novel, The Last Restaurant in Paris. It’s set in Occupied Paris during WW2. Why did you want to write about it? Thank you so much. I love Paris, it’s architecture, food, history and joie de vivre and I’ve always been fascinated by its...
From the historian’s perspective, the Second World War, in the words of Al Murray, “is a bottomless pit.” With such a vast array of topics, how do you even attempt to bring this together in one festival? Well, the answer is that you don’t: you simply gather the best...
The Partisan by Patrick Worrall. After attaining their independence at the end of the First World War, the Baltic countries suffered the misfortune of being invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939 and then by Nazi Germany in 1941 and again by the Soviet Union in 1944....
On the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, Captain John Tonkin and Lieutenant Richard Crisp parachuted into occupied France at the helm of an SAS troop tasked with preventing German reinforcements from being brought to the Normandy beachheads. Despite initial successes,...
Hitler's Greatest Mistake In early 1941, the U.S. Congress debated the passage of a landmark bill, one that would enable Britain to purchase £3 billion worth of arms from America. At the time, Britain was confronted with a financial and military crisis, encapsulated...
Paris, 1987 Gilbert The old antiquarian bookstore was a sliver amongst the larger pastel-coloured shops on the leafy Parisian street of Rue Cardinet. It was called Librairie d’antiquités de Géroux but was, nonetheless, as much a part of the Batignolles village as the...
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What prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? World War Two loomed large in my life for the significant reason that my father died when I was quite young (7) because of it. While on naval service in West Africa during the war, he contracted...
