The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
When a Single British Colony Ruled over a Quarter of Humanity This spring, tensions between India and Pakistan reached their most perilous point in decades. With skirmishes erupting along their shared border and nuclear rhetoric flaring on both sides, the region...
Poet on a Volcano Many artists hope that they will be lasting figures in history. A few even boast that they will. But no boaster ever succeeded as well the Latin poet, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, who shouted out at the end of what he thought might be his last book ‘Non...
To the uninitiated, the name Reginald Mitchell might well sound like a retired accountant from Surbiton. To aviation enthusiasts, however, his name is synonymous with the Spitfire. Yet, while the great “R. J. Mitchell” garnered worldwide attention with the 1942...
Gautam Hazarika, what first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I had always been interested in WW2, primarily Britain’s war against Nazi Germany, but not in the Far East, even after living 20 years in Singapore where so much of it happened at my...
Questions India myths about Subhas Chandra Bose, INA, are of great interest in India today India’s INA history is largely focused on Netaji. Indeed he did a lot, but he had a lot of help. The book shows that the INA was not started by him, but 18 months earlier by the...
Family Stories of The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II Captain Mohan Singh – history hero of the book – his son, daughter, niece and grandchildren Centurion and only survivor of Singapore I’ve found so far, Lance-Naik Charan Singh (Punjabi). Lucid and in...
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