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Tom Petch

Tom Petch is a Writer and Director. Tom served for eight years in the British Army, as a tank commander, adjutant, aide de camp and Troop Commander of 22 SAS. His military experience gives him a unique perspective on recently declassified archives, operation reports, accounts and interviews of the original SAS and their commanders. He is now an award-winning film director and producer whose debut film, The Patrol, won the Raindance Film Festival. He is also the great-great-grandson of Samuel Shepheard, who founded Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo where the SAS was born.

Tom Petch

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Quiz Questions – Answers

The answers to our editor's Christmas Quiz

Oliver Webb-Carter

From the Questions here Which play, written by Euripides, is set in Thebes during the rule of Pentheus? The Bacchae Alexander of Macedon is known as The Great, but what number Alexander was he? Alexander III After Nero’s botched suicide attempt, Rome entered the year...

The Wandering Army, by Huw J. Davies

There are faint echoes of Iraq and Afghanistan in this study of the British Army of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Evelyn Webb-Carter

It was General Eyre Coote, an interesting man whose career came to an unfortunate end who coined the phrase “A Wandering Army”. The title presents us with the notion of The British Military Enlightenment in the 18th and early 19th centuries that was developed during...

Making History, by Richard Cohen

This book on history and its writing makes for an endlessly fascinating read.

Paul Strathern

Early in Richard Cohen’s excellent Making History he quotes his distinguished predecessor, the late John Burrow: ‘Almost all historians … have some characteristic weakness … It is often the source of their most interesting writing’. Cohen’s weaknesses are for story,...

Unionism & The Treaty

Ulster leader James Craig thought he had beaten Lloyd George during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.

Gretchen Friemann

Unionism & The Treaty The Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 led to civil war in Ireland as those for and against descended into bitter conflict. But what of Northern Ireland, established in May 1921? There were plans to include Ulster politicians in an...

Conquer We Must, by Robin Prior

A highly readable account of Britain's military history incorporating both world wars.

Robert Lyman

This is a superb and highly readable account of the development of the often tumultuous relationships between Britain’s political and military leaders over 31-years, starting with Sarajevo in 1914 and ending with Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Britain and its empire...

Ottoman Pathways to Tolerance

Marc David Baer demonstrates how the Ottomans established tolerance in Europe hundreds of years before the Enlightenment.

Marc David Baer

Viewing the history of the Ottomans as part and parcel of European history allows us to understand the origins and meaning of concepts and practices such as religious tolerance, secularism, modernity, and even genocide in a different light. We recognise that they...

Coventry & Stalingrad

The author of a new book on Stalingrad discusses Coventry's recent decision to cut ties with Volgograd, aka Stalingrad.

Iain MacGregor

A faded mural on the streets of Coventry is meant to represent an unbreakable bond between itself and Russia. Volgograd twinned with Coventry in 1944, becoming the first city in the world to pair with a foreign counterpart. The mural was called ‘Volgograd Place’ and...

Iain MacGregor

Iain talks history, interests and inspiration.

Iain MacGregor

What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? From a young age I have avidly devoured narratives and illustrated books on military history of all periods. I have been fascinated by the Second World War and it clearly has left its mark on the United...

Iain MacGregor

Iain MacGregor has been an editor and publisher of nonfiction for over 25 years. He is the author of the acclaimed oral history of Cold War Berlin: Checkpoint Charlie and his writing has appeared in the Guardian, Spectator and BBC History.

Iain MacGregor

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