The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
The modern city of Istanbul has been known by many names. Constantinople, Miklagard, the New Rome, the Queen of Cities, the Great City, Byzantium. But by any name, it has been the setting for many a great novel (and some not so great ones). I suppose when it comes to...
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? My interest is in the Middle Ages, particularly the Twelfth Century. I think what first attracted me, in my school days, was sheer weirdness of the period: bizarre beliefs, arcane knowledge, alchemy,...
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Nearly half a century after the events he witnessed in 1914, the novelist Henry Williamson fictionalised the Christmas truce in his novel A Fox Under My Cloak, describing crawling through No Man’s Land on Christmas night and hearing ‘Silent Night’ sung from the enemy...
What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I have always been fascinated by King Arthur and the dark ages, since a trip to Glastonbury Abbey at the age of 11. That and the navy in the 20th century took me through my childhood. That would perhaps...
Sunlight filtered through the woodland as the first of the SAS captives - troopers Billy Young, Joe Walker, Pat Barker and Sergeant Thomas Varey - were lined up by armed German guards. Driven in army trucks from Paris, where they'd been held at Gestapo's HQ, there...
Staring down the barrel of the 9mm pistol, Serge Vaculik felt his innards turn to ice. He had to hope the Gestapo officer was bluffing, although it didn’t look that way. There was spittle at the corners of his mouth, like a rabid dog. SS Hauptsturmführer Richard...
More than 150 miles behind enemy lines, the SAS raiders slipped noiselessly into the trees. Serge “Frenchy” Vaculik, Thomas “Ginger” Jones and Paddy Barker formed one party. They picked their way through the forest towards where they knew the German ammunition dump...
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