Articles

I’ve written a number of articles about the war, which I am posting here, as well as a number of pieces which will never be published in any other format. Two examples are the outlines I wrote for both my Malta and Italy books. In a nutshell, they are shortened versions of the final books – a brief, cut-down version – and hopefully a taster rather than a substitute.

General Mark Clark & the Fall of Rome

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20th April 2016

On the whole, historians have not been kind to General Mark…

Naples '44 & the Warnings of History

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27th March 2016

One of the things that always astonishes me is just how little…

Ken Adam: Oscar-Winning Set Designer & German RAF Typhoon Pilot

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12th March 2016

Normandy, August 1944. In the six weeks since the pilots of 609…

Going Big for World War II at the Chalke Valley History Festival

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4th February 2016

I'm getting very excited about the living history we are laying…

The Battle That Turned the War in the Far East

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4th January 2016

Just before Christmas, I finished writing a new book…

Could the Allies Have Won the War Without the Soviet Union?

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3rd January 2016

Ever since the end of the Cold War and the brief opening of the…

Germany & the Battle of Britain

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21st December 2015

I originally wrote this for BBC History Magazine, but…

Gunther Rall

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10th October 2015

I was very lucky to have the chance to meet Gunther Rall at…

Air Power Over Normandy

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26th May 2014

This June, the Chalke Valley History Festival is marking the…

Scottish Independence - A Warning From History

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12th May 2014

It worries me that we here in England are taking the chilling…

Heinz Puschmann - Another Old Friend Gone

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23rd December 2013

This week I heard the sad news that Heinz Puschmann had died…

An Obsession with US Wartime Jackets

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15th November 2013

I'm the first to admit I've probably got more Second World War…