The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
When one thinks of D-Day, June 6th 1944, the first images that spring to mind are of brave soldiers disembarking landing craft and rushing onto the beaches to face the machine-guns of the defending Germans. Films, such as Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day have...
Nick Hewitt, many congratulations on Normandy: The Sailor’s Story. Why did you want to write it? Thank you! I’ve been studying the naval history of D-Day and the wider Normandy campaign for most of my career, ever since I started working aboard HMS Belfast as a baby...
Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, RN, is perhaps one of the most overlooked Allied commanders of the Second World War. Commissioned as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy on 15 September 1899, he was Mentioned in Despatches for his leadership of a naval landing party in...
