

The Bengal Famine - Was Churchill to Blame?
This is an extract from my book Burma 44:
Before heading…



DUNKIRK: DOES HISTORICAL ACCURACY MATTER?
I've just been to a screening of this very exciting new movie…

Battle of Britain Day 76 Years On
Even today, we still tend to paint a picture of plucky little…


Dunkirk 1940: Hitler's Halt Order
Just why Hitler gave his infamous order to halt the advancing…

General Mark Clark & the Fall of Rome
On the whole, historians have not been kind to General Mark…

Naples '44 & the Warnings of History
One of the things that always astonishes me is just how little…

Ken Adam: Oscar-Winning Set Designer & German RAF Typhoon Pilot
Normandy, August 1944. In the six weeks since the pilots of 609…

Going Big for World War II at the Chalke Valley History Festival
I'm getting very excited about the living history we are laying…