The Raid on Taranto

by | Nov 6, 2024 | Uncategorized

‘Operation Judgement’. ‘During the attack a hundred thousand rounds were fired at us but only one aircraft was shot down in each wave. I got hit underneath by one half-inch machine gun bullet. It was the pilot’s job to aim the torpedo. Nobody was given a specific...

My five favourite fiction Espionage books.

by | Aug 13, 2024 | Uncategorized

1 The 39 Steps John Buchan. I think it has to be on everybody’s list written by Buchan while he was ill in bed at the start of the First World War and published in 1915. It has great pace and a riveting plot no wonder the soldiers in the trenches were enthralled, and...

Pickett’s Charge

by | Aug 8, 2024 | Uncategorized

The great American writer William Faulkner in his unique literary voice wrote of Pickett’s charge in his novel Intruder in the Dust and tells us the whole South wanted and still wants to be there at Gettysburg on the 3 July 1863: ‘…the brigades are in position...

D-Day Commandos

by | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized

D-Day Commando The Story of 48 Commando Royal Marines, on the 6th of June 1944.  48 Royal Marine Commando was the last such unit to be formed in World War Two, and the first to land on D-Day.    Lance-Corporal Ted Brooks arrived on Nan Red Beach on the...

Obrigado Portugal

by | Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized

Portuguese rights of Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye sold by Casemate well done to the publisher. Chapter Ten is devoted to the espionage war in Portugal during WWII fought between the Allies and the Axis in the neutral country. Also both sides coveted the...

Rob Nicolson Returns

by | Mar 30, 2024 | Uncategorized

Due out soon the IV of the Rob Nicolson books Roundabout following on from Operation Flamenco although like all the Rob Nicolson books it is a stand alone. In this book he takes on the Criminal Golden Circle hell bent on world domination the action moves from the...