The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
This book is the latest in a line of books published this year by SAS personnel as part of the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands Conflict, recounting their experiences down south it covers his early years as a difficult childhood with no money, growing up in post...
When they think of the Household Cavalry most envisage men wearing the uniform of the 1850s riding 17 hand black Irish draft horses along the Mall, but as no unit of the British Army is exclusively devoted to ceremonial duties, the Household Cavalry of two regiments,...
Roger Field, many congratulations on the new title, Scimitar into Stanley. You’ve mentioned that as a member of HQ 5 Brigade on the journey down to the Falklands, you soon realised you needed to keep a diary. What was it about the Brigade Staff and leadership that...
Tony Shaw, many congrats on the new book. First off, Selection. There are TV shows about this now, but asking for a friend, if one keeps themselves fit in the gym and running regularly (perhaps with the odd marathon), surely, as long as you don’t give up, passing...
Simon Medhurst has produced an extraordinary work in Titanic Day by Day: 366 Days with the Titanic. The great-grandson of Robert Hitchens, one of the six quartermasters of the Titanic, this is an ode to the lives lost on Titanic, so that they will never be forgotten....
SAS South Georgia Boating Club began life as a war diary kept by me in a notebook during the Falklands War in 1982. Many years later, and with the encouragement of my grown-up son, this became the nucleus of an idea to write my life story with the war diary sandwiched...
Simon Medhurst, congratulations on the new book, which I think is your first. There’s an interesting story behind it, can you tell us about your grandfather Robert Hichens? First thank you for the kind words, yes my first book. It has been 6 years in the making. I...
It is sometimes assumed in the collective memory that football in England ceased to be played with the suspension of the leagues at the end of the 1914/15 season but as Alexander Jackson points out in his highly readable account of the game during the First World War...
Alexander Jackson, your book deals with Association Football during the First World War. Just how popular was the game in Britain by the time the war started in 1914? By 1913 much of the modern game had emerged. On the one hand, there was a grassroots game, ranging...
Roman Britain's Lost Ninth Legion The fate of the 5,500 men of legio IX Hispana is one of the greatest historical mysteries of all time. Uniquely among the Roman legions, of which there were over time more than 60 (and at any one time in the Empire a maximum of 33),...
