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Chasing Shadows

The author of a new thriller describes the search for WMDs.

Will Erikson

Chasing Shadows In the summer of 2003, I was one of around 1,200 American, British, and Australian intelligence personnel sent to Baghdad to form the Iraq Survey Group (ISG). The task of this unprecedented field intelligence operation was simple: locate the Weapons of...

Pride’s Purge

Pride's Purge laid in place the stepping stones that ended with the scaffold and the execution of Charles I.

Alice Hunt

Pride's Purge Early in the morning of 6 December 1648, soldiers began to gather around Whitehall. Some were on foot, some on horse. A pale light was beginning to show in the sky. It was cold, and the atmosphere was edgy. At the heart of the mass of buildings that...

The Other Norman Conquest

The 'Norman Conquest' expands far beyond England throughout the 11th century.

Adam Staten

In England, the phrase ‘Norman Conquest’ immediately conjures up images of arrows in the eye, the Bayeux tapestry and an abrupt transition from Anglo-Saxon rule to Norman feudalism. But the conquest of England was just one facet of the extraordinary expansion of...

I’m done with po-faced politicians

Why can’t we go back to 1983?

Phil Craig

By 10pm on the night of 9th June 1983 BBC Television centre was humming. In Studio Two, amid a beige version of the set from Alien, David Dimbleby and Robin Day were about to start the election results show, though everybody already knew Thatcher was going to walk it....

The King’s touch

Princess Diana’s powers are underappreciated.

Phil Craig

The King’s touch “Of course you’ve read Marc Bloch on this?” I was tempted to say “Yes” but it was never a good idea to bullshit Christopher Hitchens, who’d read everything. We were well into a languid, discursive Dupont Circle lunch. The kind that left me muddled and...

Military Maverick – Selected Letters and War Diary Of ‘Chink’ Dorman Smith, by Lavinia Greacen

This book is a fascinating insight into the mind of a far thinking officer with, in many respects, a brilliant mind.

Gordon Corrigan

Military Maverick – Selected Letters and War Diary Of ‘Chink’ Dorman Smith, by Lavinia Greacen As the only candidate, before or since, ever to have achieved 100% in the tactics paper in the entrance examination for the army Staff College Eric Dorman-Smith ought...

Phil Craig

Phil Craig is a best selling author and multiple-award-winning film-maker, producer and TV network executive.A former RAF cadet pilot, Phil studied history at Cambridge University, was a BBC graduate trainee and built his career working for iconic British current affairs series World in Action and Panorama, where he became senior producer. Later he became joint head of programmes at the prestigious Brook Lapping production company, where he made a range of contemporary and historical films for the BBC, Channel Four, PBS in America, Discovery, Nat Geo and numerous other international clients. He went on to run departments at the Discovery Channel and at ABC Television in Australia, where he supervised the entire factual output of the national broadcaster including its high profile ANZAC centenary project in 2015.

Phil Craig

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Phil Craig

The bestselling historian discusses his history, influences and his latest book.

Phil Craig

What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I was a 60s child and brought up on Airfix models, the Air Training Corps and Victor comics, so the Second World War obsessed me, especially the Battle of Britain. When I was about 40 the BBC asked me to...

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The Battle for Aachen

The battle of Aachen was one of the hardest fought of the war, and destroyed much of the city, though thankfully not the cathedral.

Philip W. Blood

Writing the history of one’s hometown is no small feat, even after living and studying its history for 25 years. Aachen became my home in October 1999, when I was invited to teach at RWTH-Aachen University during my PhD studies. The university was already an esteemed...