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.
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