The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
As we reach the end of the year Aspects of History selects the title that stood out above the rest published during 2024. Past books that have won include The World by Simon Sebag-Montefiore, The White Ship by Charles Spencer, and last year's Conflict, by General...
Books of 2023 from Aspects of HistoryAlan Bardos Author of The Dardanelles ConspiracyIt’s been a great year for fiction and non-fiction, but these books are my first amongst equals. Every Spy a Traitor by Alex Gerlis follows Agent Archie, a Russian mole in MI6 across...
John, congratulations on the publication of your new novel Target Arnhem. It’s a great World War II story, combining battlefield action with a nail biting espionage plot. Could you tell us a bit about the different storylines? Thank you Alan. This is the second...
The Wars of the Roses was packed with remarkable characters - Richard III, Warwick the Kingmaker, Margaret of Anjou, the ‘mad king’ Henry VI, and so on. One of the less familiar, perhaps, is John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (1444-1513). John was one of the great...
Amidst stiff competition from his fellow tyrants Reinhard Heydrich has a strong claim to be the 20th century’s most evil monster: even an awed Adolf Hitler called him ‘the man with the Iron heart’. For when this tall blonde epitome of the Nazi Aryan ideal was...
Historical Heroes: Patrick Leigh Fermor There was a moment during Patrick Leigh Fermor’s daring operation to kidnap a German general and spirit him out of Crete that made me realise Paddy is my ‘Historical Hero.’ I read about it again recently in Artemis Cooper’s...
Coming of Age at 18: Alice Loxton Interview Alice, I wondered what were you doing when you were when you were 18? I probably had a pretty conventional 18 year old life, I think, in that I was just completing my A-levels and was looking to university. I was very...
