Thanks for looking in. "Singapore Burning", my latest military history, will be published as a Penguin paperback in May. Meanwhile, if you can’t wait that long some copies of the hardback edition, a handsome production with fine end papers, are still around. "The definitive book on this extraordinary drama," said Patrick Bishop, writing in The Telegraph. "Magisterial", said Neal Ascherson in The Observer. If you want to look at more reviews or read extracts of any of my books click on covers below. My other books listed here include the two I wrote with the highly regarded John Bierman who died on 4 January 2006: "Alamein: War Without Hate", described by the historian Sir John Keegan as "a remarkable achievement" and "Fire in the Night" our biography of Orde Wingate, the most eccentric soldier Britain has produced since Clive of India. "The best book on the subject yet available" wrote Philip Ziegler in The Spectator. All the books listed can be bought through the Amazon links on the book pages.

In recent years I have been giving radio and live audience talks, sometimes illustrated. Subjects have ranged from "War Without Hate - the North African campaign and the Empire’s Last Victory" ; "Orde Wingate and the guerrillas he led in Burma, Ethiopia and Zion"; "The Last Crusade - Allenby’s cavalry campaign in Palestine and his capture of Jerusalem from the Ottoman Turks in 1917" ; "Singapore - its myths and heroism". Last year, with historians Richard Overy and Richard J. Evans, I appeared on a panel at the Cheltenham Literary Festival to discuss "Heroism and Cowardice in World War Two". Talks can best be arranged by using my contact form or writing to me at POB 20827, Nicosia 1664,Cyprus.