The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Damien features on a number of podcasts and interviews, discussing his work, which you can find here: History Hit on Acast Midas Culture Shot podcast with Sky News editor Ben Monro-Davies on Spotify BBC Radio 5 Interview on SAS Band of Brothers - Start: 2h19m. Second...
Sunlight filtered through the woodland as the first of the SAS captives - troopers Billy Young, Joe Walker, Pat Barker and Sergeant Thomas Varey - were lined up by armed German guards. Driven in army trucks from Paris, where they'd been held at Gestapo's HQ, there...
Staring down the barrel of the 9mm pistol, Serge Vaculik felt his innards turn to ice. He had to hope the Gestapo officer was bluffing, although it didn’t look that way. There was spittle at the corners of his mouth, like a rabid dog. SS Hauptsturmführer Richard...
More than 150 miles behind enemy lines, the SAS raiders slipped noiselessly into the trees. Serge “Frenchy” Vaculik, Thomas “Ginger” Jones and Paddy Barker formed one party. They picked their way through the forest towards where they knew the German ammunition dump...
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What first attracted you to the period or periods you work in? I write mostly about World War Two and immediately post war history. The attraction for me is that World War Two is generally speaking one of the only modern day conflicts in which survival of modern...
