Inn At The Top
A lifelong love affair with the Dales.
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Neil Hanson is the author of an acclaimed series of narrative histories including Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the Great War; The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada; The Custom of the Sea; The Dreadful Judgement: The True Story of the Great Fire of London; First Blitz: The Secret German Plan to Fire-bomb London in 1918; Monk Eastman: The Gangster Who Became a War Hero; Priestley’s Wars: The War Writings of J.B.Priestley; and Escape from Germany: The Greatest PoW Break-out of the First World War.
His books have been hailed by critics on four continents as "brilliant", "stunning", "haunting", "exceptional", "fantastic", "magnificent", "superlative", "unforgettable", "a triumph" and "a masterpiece", and led one critic to compare him to "Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and a dozen other immortals".
He has lectured on his work all over the world, is an award winning after-dinner speaker and has made regular appearances on television and radio in Britain, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund in 2007 and a Consultant Fellow in 2014.
‘In Neil Hanson’s prose, the dark ceremonial of Remembrance Sunday (has) an almost unbearable poignancy… A beautifully illustrated book that has all the sombre grandeur of the Beethoven funeral march.’
John Crossland, Sunday Times, London.
‘One of the best books I’ve read on the insanity of life in the trenches.’
Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail, London
‘Superb… Not only does the author convincingly nail Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake as egregious villains but he does so in glowing historical prose.’
Best Reads of the Year, The Independent on Sunday
‘Entertaining and exhaustive.’
The Spectator
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The UK’s only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in The … Read More
Of all the million British dead of the First World War, only one – The Unknown Soldier – was ever returned to his native land. … Read More
‘Continual, destruction in the foretop, the pox above board, the plague between decks, hell in the forecastle and the devil at the helm.’ It is … Read More
A fire needs only three things: a spark to ignite it and fuel and oxygen to feed it. Since the autumn of 1665, a ten … Read More
On 5 July 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. Halfway through their voyage, Captain Tom Dudley and his crew of … Read More
July, 1918. Holzminden was the most heavily guarded and escape-proof POW camp in the world. Surrounded by steel palisades and barbed wire fences, and patrolled … Read More
First Blitz tells an extraordinary story, and one which I knew nothing about until I began to research it. I had, of course, heard of … Read More
The true story of one of the most notorious and enigmatic figures of the gangster era, whose 2000-strong “army” of thugs, thieves and prostitutes, in … Read More
Priestley’s Wars traces the personal odyssey of one of our greatest and best-loved literary figures. JB Priestley, a man whose life virtually spanned the 20th … Read More
Some places announce themselves by a distinctive smell in the air, long before the town or city itself is reached: the hoppy aroma of brewing … Read More
“The man who has done it all… Outstanding, inspiring and beautifully told, no true tale of the sea makes better reading” Clive Cussler Goldfinder – … Read More
Post-war Britain was a grey, drab place where work was hard and poorly paid, slums, smogs, smoke-blackened buildings and bomb-sites still scarred the landscape and … Read More