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The Last Days of Budapest, by Adam LeBor

The Last Days of Budapest, by Adam LeBor

This is an immaculately researched book, written in a fluent and engaging style.

Eighty years on from the end of the Second World War our understanding of it ought to be sophisticated enough by now to appreciate that all was not necessarily as it seemed. As tempting as it is, one should avoid viewing the events in Europe in 1939-1945 in simplistic...

I Am André, by Diana Mara Henry

I Am André, by Diana Mara Henry

An important and fascinating story written in considerable detail.

January 2025 will be the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, a single event which has come to symbolise the Holocaust. No-one could claim that in the eighty years since there’s been a shortage of literature on the Holocaust: a search on...

France in the Second World War: An Enduring Myth

France in the Second World War: An Enduring Myth

Author Alex Gerlis describes the challenges of writing about a particularly brutal war that is often misunderstood.

I’ve written extensively on the Second World War in Europe. My eleven books may be works of fiction but the plots are all based around real events that unfolded during the war. That history and the locations I use are all carefully researched. I scrupulously avoid...

Every Spy A Traitor: Alex Gerlis Interviewed by Alan Bardos

Every Spy A Traitor: Alex Gerlis Interviewed by Alan Bardos

The two spy authors discuss Alex's new series beginning in the inter-war period.

In your new book Every Spy a Traitor you move away from a World War II/Post War setting and focus purely on a ‘Cold War’ with the Soviet Union in the 1930s. What was it that attracted you to the period? I liked the idea of a series that covered a longer time span,...

Agent in the Shadows, by Alex Gerlis

Agent in the Shadows, by Alex Gerlis

The final Wolf Pack novel from the master spy novelist.

Well, I don’t know about you, but I thought Jack Miller and Sophia von Naundorf had made it through to peacetime at the end of Agent in Peril. Not a bit of it – they still have their most exciting and dangerous mission before them, and what could be their most...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Spy author Alex Gerlis writes about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that partly inspired his novel Agent in Peril.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising In all my novels, there are a number of plot lines which converge at the end of the book, but in my new book, Agent in Peril the core plot is based around the Battle of the Ruhr in 1943, the RAF’s bombing campaign from March-July that year...

Action This Day: A WW2 Short Story Collection

Action This Day: A WW2 Short Story Collection

A new collection from Aspects of History features some of the best novelists writing about the Second World War.
Mia Roe

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,...

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