I am a historian of the Second World War and the aim of this site is to enable others to access some of the research I have carried out over the past few years,
and to encourage people to exchange ideas and views about a wide range of subjects relating to the conflict.
On this site you will find an oral history archive with transcriptions of many of the interviews
I have conducted with veterans of the war from many different countries, and there are also blogs, comment pieces, book reviews,
suggested reading, and also contributions from other leading historians in this field.
I hope you find it interesting.
James Holland
James Delingpole
Antony Beevor
Sir Max Hastings
Geoffrey Wellum
Guy Walters
George MacDonald Fraser
Alex Bowlby
Evelyn WaughThis is an extract from my forthcoming book, HEROES.
April 1, 1945 – April Fool’s Day, Easter Sunday, and, as it happened, D-Day for the invasion of Okinawa.• In the deep blue waters around the island were over 1,457 ships and landing craft, crammed with more than half a million men, and including a joint US Army and Marine Corps landing force of around 182,000 troops. Read more…
2 January 2007
A new year and back to work. My word count currently stands at 47,000 and by the end of March I have to have the book finished and standing at around 165-170,000. I write fast, and for the last three months of writing Together We Stand was hammering out 50,000 words a month, so in theory, it shouldn’t be beyond me. Read more…
