The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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‘A hit!’ The referee’s judgement echoes round the room as the ringing clash of the rapier blades dies. Tom Musgrave disengages and steps back along the fencing piste, out of the wide measure called larga misura where his opponent’s rapier could still reach him with a...
Historians may debate where the dawn of the Viking Age should be placed in history, but from Britain’s point of view, there can be little doubt. In 793AD raiders crossed the North Sea and unleashed a devastating attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne. Such was its...
What prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? It was a toss up between Vikings and Romans. One day, around the time I started to make serious plans, I saw Bernard Cornwell’s first Uhtred book in the window of a Waterstones. I was so naïve...
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Pat Hobby shook his head in sadness at the news on the radio. The world was at war. His next whisky would be a double. France had fallen. Great Britain was standing alone. Hitler and his Nazi thugs controlled Europe. Pat spared a thought for Jakob Lowenstein, a...
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What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I write mostly about World War Two and immediately post war history. The attraction for me is that World War Two is generally speaking one of the only modern day conflicts in which survival of modern...
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