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The main thrust of the British attack on the Somme on 1st July 1916 was to be carried out by eleven infantry divisions from General Rawlinson’s Fourth Army. However, two miles to the north, a [...]

Progress is coming along nicely with regards to my latest Layman’s Guide which will cover the 1916 Battle of the Somme. There will be a few new things in this Layman’s Guide which [...]

It’s been almost two years since I published my last book Invasion! But I am kicking off 2021 in style with the launch of a brand new WW2 Factbook – 1001 Sensational Second World War [...]

It’s only taken me four years, but I have finally got round to producing a paperback version of Waterloo: A Layman’s Guide. At around 150 pages it is not the mightiest book in the [...]

It’s been a while since I wrote a Layman’s Guide. My last few writing projects have been for traditional publishers (Reaching for the Sky & Invasion!) so I haven’t really [...]

Actually, there are not 10,000 reasons to say thank you. There are, as of yesterday, 10,240 reasons to thank you. That’s because I am delighted, staggered and humbled to announce that WW1: [...]

It’s a weird time at the moment, and I hope that you and your family are able to stay safe and out of the reach of this nasty COVID-19 virus that is causing such havoc to our daily lives. I [...]

80 years ago today, Germany invaded Poland thus starting the Second World War. Poland had been an ‘issue’ for Germany since 1919. As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Poland was rebuilt and given [...]

This week numerous commemorative events will be taking place across Southern England and France to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. On 6th June, 1944, tens of thousands of men [...]

I am delighted to announce that I have been invited to do not one, but two ‘meet the author’ book signing sessions at the Imperial War Museum, London on 6th June 2019. Which just so [...]