The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Britain at War is a magazine that “does exactly what it says on the tin,” focusing on Britain’s wartime experience. What, for you, defines the magazine’s core identity and mission? On the face of it, it’s rather simple. Britain at War is a tribute to this nation’s –...
The Second World War saw a desperate conflict between Allied and Axis scientists, who were locked in a deadly arms race to develop new technology - in what Winston Churchill called the Wizard War. To gain the upper hand in this secret war, the Royal Navy formed a...
In SAS The Great Train Raid, Damien Lewis recounts the incredible actions of 2 SAS Regiment behind enemy lines in Italy during World War II. The centrepiece of the book is Operation Loco, an audacious raid on the Pisticci concentration camp to free its inmates, the...
Hunter Class is the second novel in your Daniel Nichols Spy Thrillers series. What has happened to Nichols since the end of Rising Tide and the beginning of the new book? Nichols has been recruited into 30 Commando by Ian Fleming, a unit the Bond creator formed to...
A Death in Berlin is the third instalment of Simon Scarrow’s excellent Berlin Noir series featuring Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke. A former racing car driver turned police detective. It’s May 1940, the Second World War is less than a year old and its all quiet on...
Damien Lewis's third instalment of his SAS 'greatest escapes of World War II series is a corker. It has all the elements Lewis 'readers have come to expect, painstaking research carefully blended with firsthand accounts that allow the men concerned to tell their...
Budapest in Wartime: Adam LeBor Interviewed Congratulations on the publication of your new book, The Last Days of Budapest. It’s an extremely powerful book that tells the story of Budapest’s descent into catastrophe during World War II, could you start by telling us...
Simon, A Death in Berlin is the latest in your new series featuring Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke. It's a very pacey and compelling novel. Would you like to start by giving an overview of the plot? I was looking at the underworld in Weimar and Nazi Germany. One of...
‘A Serpent in the Garden’ is the first in Howard Linskey’s new 'William Shakespeare Mysteries' series. It is set in Shakespeare’s ‘lost years’ of 1585 to 1592. A seven-year-period when Will left Stratford with no prospects but managed to earn enough money to buy a...
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 book...
