The Ticket Collector from Belarus
The UK's only war crimes trial
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
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
To order a signed copy – also personalised with your name, if you wish – for the special price of £10.00, including post and packing, call 07940 … Read More
To order a signed copy – also personalised with your name, if you wish – for the special price of £10.00, including post and packing , … Read More