The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
KENNEDY 35 is the third novel in Charles Cumming’s intriguing BOX 88 series, featuring Lachlan Kite. Kite is a great modern take on the classic spy hero: tough, resilient and flawed. A scholarship boy who went to one of the most famous public schools in the world....
My Enemy’s Enemy: The German-Japanese Intelligence Alliance The years leading up to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour saw a strengthening of diplomatic relations between Japan and Germany, and growing cooperation between their intelligence services. This is where I...
From Taranto to Pearl Harbor I’ve always been captivated by the daring and skill of the Fleet Air Arm's attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto in 1940 and the much larger airstrike on Pearl Harbour, carried out a year later by the Japanese Navy. They were pioneering...
SAS Brothers in Arms is a fascinating character study of the men who founded the SAS and the desert war they fought during WW II. Lewis follows the development of the SAS from a parachute unit to its adoption of vehicles to take them to their targets. Developing...
How Decisive Was the Attack on Pearl Harbor? The Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii in 1941 achieved its initial goal of knocking out the US Pacific Fleet, but how decisive was it? Could the Pacific War have been ended before it even started? Japan’s objective behind...
Alan, many congrats on embarking on your new novel, Rising Tide. We’re now in WW2, and Pearl Harbor after your earlier WW1 adventures. Why did you want to shift conflict? Thanks very much. In my previous First World War series I looked at how waging a quick decisive...
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? Japan’s decision to attack Pearl Harbor has gone down in history as a short-term victory with catastrophic long-term consequences. The Japanese leadership, already bogged down in an unwinnable war in China, were aware that they were...
The Blood of Others is the latest instalment of the Spoils of War, Graham Hurley’s non-linear series with returning characters that spans World War II. The Blood of Others tells the story of Operation Jubilee, a combined operations raid carried out by Canadian and...
Graham Hurley your new novel The Blood of Others, is a thriller about the disastrous raid on Dieppe in August 1942. What was it that drew you to the story? A while ago, as a documentary producer with ITV, I made a series of revisionist films to mark various WW2...
