OVERLORD'S BLOG

As those of you whom have been following me on Facebook will likely know, my next book is due out in May next year. It focuses on British sp...

 At 1430 on the 25th of March 1941 the British cruiser York steamed into the naval base in Souda Bay, Crete. She moved slowly through the tw...

Looking for an article this week I started looking at something completely different, however, on one document I found the hint of a brillia...

 In the darkness of the very early morning of the 24th of January 1961, the crew of the USAF KC-135 Stratotanker peered astern of their airc...

 On the 1st of July 1942 the first battle of El Alamein started. This was the moment when the 8th Army had to stop the Afrika Korp and their...

 If you go to just about any forum or website that is remotely military or historically themed, you will almost certainly find a post about ...

On the 2nd of March 1965 the US opened Operation Rolling Thunder. This was the tightly controlled bombing of North Vietnam in an attempt to ...

Today is Remembrance Sunday, the 100th such commemoration, and it is a hopefully unique one. For the first time it has had to be, if not ent...

Imagine if you will, a story of a specially modified car with all sorts of gadgets, cruising around East Germany, spying on Russian equipmen...