The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Welcome to Aspects of History. You’ve written a fantastic book, Alan Brooke: Churchill's Right-Hand Critic, but he is not as well-known as he should be, is that why did you decided to write about him? Having used his diary many times for references and his views it...
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Every evening, once the dinner dishes had been cleared away, Hazel Hill would sit at the kitchen table prodding numbers into her father’s calculating machine. It should never have left his office at the Air Ministry but Fred had a mountain of data to process and his...
The Armies March, by John Cudahy. A personal account of the early days of Nazi Germany’s sweeping invasion and conquering of Europe.
The Epic of Dunkirk, by E Keble Chatterton. A chronicle of one of the most gallant episodes in British history.
Tally-Ho: Yankee in a Spitfire, by Arthur Gerald Donahue. The memoirs of an American pilot in the Royal Air Force in WW2
Indomitable is the third title in Matthew Willis’ Fortress of Malta series and follows on from the events of the previous two books, Harpoon and Bastion. This time the protagonist of the series, Clydesdale, returns to Malta in Operation Pedestal, a vital convoy...
‘The average young man of today aged something under thirty, whether he be a social butterfly or a junior clerk, is a stupid, conceited creature,’ thundered the Daily Mirror in its editorial. ‘Few men are much good until they are thirty.’ Guidance from the Greatest...
I became interested in the formidable character of Alan Brooke when researching for other books, and in the Kew National Archives stumbled upon references which at first sight were totally contradictory. On the one hand there is the ornithological fanatic with close...
In the 1950s and 60s, Word War Two was a recent memory for most families who had nearly all been involved in the struggle one way or another. At that time, escape stories and the daring exploits of servicemen who had been captured regularly appeared on shop...
