Ten years ago I decided to take advantage of my retirement by doing some writing. As I had earlier taught some aspects of twentieth...

DISCOVERING JUDITH KERR and WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT In November 2013, the BBC in the UK screened a programme called Hitler, the...

DEFENDING THE MONUMENTS MEN George Clooney’s film The Monuments Men opened in the UK  to generally poor reviews a couple of weeks ago....

Something about the novel to start. It was written in 1941-2. There are two novels, linked by a small French community which appears in...

Red Love is an autobiographical memoir by Maxim Leo who was nineteen when the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989. It’s not, strictly...

In the summer of 1945, Germany lay in ruins. Millions were dead either in battle, through persecution or as a result of allied bombing...

There are, of course, enough books about the Second World War to fill the Grand Canyon. There are illustrated books, novels, personal...

VENGEANCE and THE SECOND WORLD WAR I make no apologies in saying that the majority of detail in this post  comes from Keith Lowe’s...

By the end of September, I hope to submit the manuscript of my second novel Two Families at War to my publisher. I’m almost satisfied...

That was the final outcome of a fascinating debate held at the Royal Geographical Society in London and organised by Intelligence Squared...

THE BEST OF OUR SPIES by ALEX GERLIS: Review Alex Gerliis’ first novel starts with a bang and keeps the reader gripped until the final...