A Military History of Britain From 1775 to the Present
By Jeremy Black, published by Prager Security International

By and large, historians of the Second World War have not been keen to vary their approach to the subject.  By this I mean that most British and especially American historians tend to write about the Allied perspective only; they usually concentrate on what was happening on the ground rather than seeing a campaign as a three-way contribution by the army, navy and air forces; and any ‘revisionism’ tends to be limited to the already established narrow view of the war.  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…