The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Just over a decade ago, I started working on a two-volume series on the North American Aviation Mustang, chiefly aimed at modellers and warbird enthusiasts. The two volumes were respectively to cover the Allison-engined and Packard Merlin-engined versions of the...
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,...
In Bader’s Big Wing Controversy, prolific aviation combat history writer Dilip Sarker MBE FRHists offers a fresh look at a well-worn subject. Any readers who thought they might have absorbed everything it was possible to know about the fabled ‘Duxford Wing’ and its...
You’ve written a number of books of historical fiction of a different era, but your Fortress of Malta trilogy is the first fiction you’ve written that has incorporated your love and expertise of naval aircraft from the Second World War. Why is that? Partly...
November 1940. The Battle of Britain has barely ended, when wave after wave of Luftwaffe bombers discharge their deadly load on the city of Coventry, with unerring precision and devastating effect. In The Pathfinders, Will Iredale charts the RAF’s response to this...
“The Navy had always regarded the island as the keystone of victory in the Mediterranean...it should be held at all costs.” Admiral A.B. Cunningham, commander-in-chief Mediterranean Fleet during Operation Pedestal. In the summer of 1942, a small island in the heart of...
Indomitable is the third title in Matthew Willis’ Fortress of Malta series and follows on from the events of the previous two books, Harpoon and Bastion. This time the protagonist of the series, Clydesdale, returns to Malta in Operation Pedestal, a vital convoy...
