by Mark Simmons | Oct 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
I Knew John Mussell, although we never met, for over twenty years since my first article appeared in Medal News in 2002 and I went on to write dozens more. He was always a ‘gent’ and great to work with. I would like to express my condolences to his Wife...
by Mark Simmons | Sep 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
And D-Day Betrayed? Were the D-Day landings ‘Operation Neptune’ betrayed? The popular view is they were not. Rather more it is felt through the British ‘Double-Cross System’, through their double agents fed the Germans a huge amount of miss-information which they...
by Mark Simmons | Sep 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Two English officers see the American Civil War Henry Charles Fletcher of the Scots Fusilier Guards (now Scots Guards) in November 1862, in just a few weeks travelling largely by rail, covered an immense distance through the Southern States. It was...
by Mark Simmons | Aug 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
by Mark Simmons | Jul 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Coming Soon my New Book Memories and Echoes: A Brits Journey into the American Civil War. For over thirty years my wife Margaret and I have been travelling to the USA. During that time we explored the background of the Civil War visiting all the major sites and...
by Mark Simmons | Jun 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Gavin Lyall Gavin Lyall was born in Birmingham in 1932. He completed National Service 1951-1953 as a pilot officer in the RAF flying Gloster Meteors, after that he went to Cambridge and graduated in 1956 with honours in English. He went on to write for several...
