Danube Blues, a musical about Vienna
Imagine it is 1913, and Freud, Trotsky, Hitler and Alma Mahler meet by accident one snowy night, and sawp places.
Jerusalem: England’s National Anthem
The story behind the words and music of a song which looks set to be the new anthem of England.
Peace on Earth: The Christmas Truce
What really happened over the Christmas period on the Western Front and why and a look at the continuing mystery of what happened afterwards.
Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma
The bestselling tale of Alan Turing, code-breaker, computing pioneer, future prophet, and – in some ways – martyr for the modern world. Available also as a paperback.
The strange story of submarine E14 and the Dardanelles, the only submarine in the world where both commanding officers won the highest bravery award.
Why has the allotment movement become so trendy? Where did the ideas come from that people should have a patch of productive land?
It’s all in my short new e-book On the Eighth Day, God Created Allotments (Endeavour Press). You can download it onto PCs as well as Kindles.
The great age of discovery, from Columbus to Cook, from the point of view of those who were ‘discovered’.
Mini-biographies of the iconic brands that we are so proud of in Britain, as Lytton Strachey might have seen them.
Toward the Setting Sun: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci and the Race for America
Three friends and rivals who raced across the Atlantic.
Blondel’s Song: The capture, imprisonment and ransom of Richard the Lionheart
The extraordinary story of the capture, imprisonment and ransom of Richard the Lionheart – and the legend of Blondel.
Articles
Subjects range from Richard the Lionheart and Frederick Winslow Taylor to Hilaire Belloc.