The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
This is the true story of Agent Sonya – wife, mother and Soviet spy. Ursula Kuczynski was born into a secular Jewish family in Germany. Like many Jews of her generation, there was no choice in 1930s Europe in the ideological struggle between Communism and Fascism. It...
When I first saw this book, I thought it was another generic book on the SAS, which would join a long list of similar publications. How wrong I was. This is a thrilling and very specific book, and the clue that it is not a general account of the SAS lies in the...
The Great Pacific War: A Historic Prophecy Now Fulfilled by Hecor Bywater
Singapore the Gibraltar of the East Last Flight From Singapore by Arthur Gerald Donahue. The Gibraltar of the East
The Middle East 1940-1942: A Study in Air Power by Philip Guedalla
Tail Gunner Takes Over by Squadron Leader R.C.Rivaz DFC
Spitfire Pilot by Flight Lieutenant David M Crook DFC
Go back for a moment to the 5 March 1942, with a cartoon in the left-leaning Daily Mirror by Philip Zec June 1929. It showed a torpedoed merchant seaman, clinging to wreckage, and included the caption: 'The price of petrol has been increased by one penny - official'....
“Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1 Statutory Pardon of Alan Mathison Turing.”...
I can still recall my growing sense of discovery at the British Library one morning when I found a story my Dad told us as kids appearing in every single national newspaper I searched – the fusty Times excepted. I learned that one night in September 1943 an “entire...
