The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Alan Bardos, The Assassins was your first novel, set during the build-up to WW1. What is it about the period that is so interesting to you? I think it’s the feeling that the people living through that period were on borrowed time while experiencing an age of great...
As the coronation of Charles III approaches, Action This Day ploughs us back into a time of risk, uncertainty and unthinkable steaks. The era of the Second World War might’ve been rife with struggle, but there was more than just that; individual stories, people,...
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of history’s greatest turning points, but it happened by accident. Everyone knows the story ends with the death of the Archduke and his wife, Sophie, putting into play the diplomatic crisis that led to the First...
8th December 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, German assassin Martin Browning plans to kill Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Christmas Eve when the American President lights the National Christmas tree on the South Lawn of the White House....
Gallipoli Conspiracy Captain Reginald ‘Blinker’ Hall, the Director of British Naval Intelligence, launched an operation to bribe members of the Ottoman Government into making peace during the First World War. Hall hoped that would open the Dardanelles Strait to the...
The Partisan by Patrick Worrall. After attaining their independence at the end of the First World War, the Baltic countries suffered the misfortune of being invaded by the Soviet Union in 1939 and then by Nazi Germany in 1941 and again by the Soviet Union in 1944....
The Flame of Resistance is part biography of Josephine Baker and part history of the British and French Secret Services in World War Two. The book focuses on the intelligence war fought across French North Africa, painting both a romantic and brutal portrait of the...
By April 1917 the Allies and the Central Powers had been locked in the stalemate of trench warfare for nearly three years. Numerous offensives had failed to break through at a terrible cost in men. New tactical and technological innovations were developed with some...
By the third year of the First World War, France was growing increasingly war weary. Over a million men had been killed, wounded or captured, with little to show for it. Russia had had a revolution and unrest was spreading through the French Army, fanned by turmoil at...
Enemies & Allies is the third book in Alan Bardos’s thrilling Johnny Swift series, following the debauched anti-hero as he manoeuvres through the First World War. Whilst part of a series, the story is also well self-contained. Bardos immerses the reader in a...
