Blog Posts

British Sport during the Second World War

British Sport during the Second World War

How war disrupted Britain's sporting calendar, claimed the lives of leading athletes, and changed the careers of sportsmen who served between 1939 and 1945.

Ten Favourite Authors of Second World War Fiction

Ten Favourite Authors of Second World War Fiction

A personal reading list of ten favourite novelists writing before, during, and after the Second World War.

Collaboration in the Second World War

Collaboration in the Second World War

How occupied nations balanced survival, ideology, and betrayal--and how post-war reckoning reshaped Europe's memory of collaboration.

Two Families at War

Two Families at War

The story behind my Blitz crime novel, from German Jewish refugees to a North London crime family, and the research that shaped the book.