The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Few other outlaw groups in history have left such an enduring legacy as the seafaring pirates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In The Pirate Menace, Angus Konstam explores how, when, why, and where the world’s most infamous (and many lesser known) pirates...
Angus Konstam, many congratulations on the new book. Before the prologue we see wonderful maps that evoke the romantic locations of the period: the Caribbean, West Africa, the eastern seaboard of the American colonies, the Florida keys and of course the Bahamas. What...
At 4pm on Sunday 14 December 1941, the homeward-bound Convoy HG-76 began leaving Gibraltar Bay. By 5.30pm it was heading west into the Atlantic at 7 ½ knots, at the start of its 2,000 mile voyage to Liverpool. Its 32 merchant ships were formed up into a neat rectangle...
Angus Konstam, many congrats on the book. What inspired you to write The Convoy? Thanks! It was really enjoyable to write. A few years ago I read a short article about it written by Mal Wright, an Australian naval historian. It really piqued my interest, as I’d been...
