The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was more than just a mutiny, although that was how it began. Of the 148 major units (battalions of infantry or regiments of cavalry) of the Bengal Army ninety-three mutinied or were disbanded as likely to mutiny. The Bombay and Madras armies...
Gordon Corrigan, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? Inspirational history tutors both at school and at Sandhurst gave me a lifelong fascination with history, and my service in the army sharpened the focus to specialise in military history....
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It was to be the People’s Will’s most daring act yet. A bomb attack inside the Winter Palace itself. The People’s Will was an extremist revolutionary group active during the reign of Tsar Alexander II. Advocating acts of violence and terror, they sentenced the tsar,...
Iran is a country that is difficult to know, but easy to love. I have never been, despite being desperate to, for various reasons which are difficult to go into, but its history is the main draw for me. To visit the ruins of Persepolis is a dream for now. They were...
November 1940. The Battle of Britain has barely ended, when wave after wave of Luftwaffe bombers discharge their deadly load on the city of Coventry, with unerring precision and devastating effect. In The Pathfinders, Will Iredale charts the RAF’s response to this...
Auroville, a town near Pondicherry in the state of Tamil Nadu in India, was established in 1968 with a goal of ‘human unity’ that still thrives today. If this sounds like a utopian community, Akash Kapur, author of Better to Have Gone, wouldn’t necessarily agree. It’s...
Peter Stothard has had plenty of experience writing about political assassinations in his former role as editor of The Times, and he has turned his attention to one of the most famous of all. The tale of Julius Caesar’s death in The Last Assassin is well told, but...
211 Squadron had been in Greece for five months before they were effectively destroyed. They came from Egypt before that, one of the first RAF units to be dispatched to the Balkans by the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Middle East Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir...
Will Iredale, welcome to Aspects of History. Many congratulations on the book.You have written before about the air war against Kamikazes (The Kamikaze Hunters) in the Pacific theatre, and now you’ve turned your attention to The Pathfinders, the elite squadrons...
