Delve Deeper

The seventies divided America more than any other decade in living memory – perhaps until now

It’s often said that if you can remember the sixties, you weren’t there. And it might be tempting to add that if you can remember the seventies, tough – because this was the decade taste forgot. Jacket lapels the size and shap…

I used the power of creative writing to escape alcoholism and combat cancer

If someone told you they’d discovered a novel therapy to beat alcohol addiction and cancer, you might think they needed therapy of another kind.

Yet this was exactly my experience. It’s no exaggeration to say novel-writing saved my liver and probably my l…

Tin Soldiers by David Chadwick

Tin Soldiers is a reimagining of the ‘Kent State massacre’ on 4 May 1970, when four students were shot dead by part-time soldiers of the Ohio National Guard during an anti-war  protest. Nine other students were injured and sixty soldiers wounded by bricks, bottles and other missiles hurled by …

U-995 was a Type VIIC U-boat – the workhorse of the Kriegsmarine. She was built in 1943 and is now a museum at Laboe in northern Germany

The conflict between Allied ships and German U-boats was dubbed the Battle of the Atlantic by Winston Churchill on 6 March 1941.

In those grim days it was a brutal and merciless fight for Britain’…

U-1009 passes HMS Byron on her way to surrender at Loch Eriboll (Imperial War Museum A28521)

A newspaper article by Cliff Greenwood soon after the war ended gives a flavour of the experiences he describes in greater detail in High Seas to Home. 

The Blackpool Gazette & Herald article, entitled Goodbye to the Sea, was published a few…

The ‘Laird Rams’ that appear in Liberty Bazaar were smaller versions of HMS Warrior, the world’s first iron-hulled warship, pictured at her berth in Portsmouth, England.

Britain’s influence on the American Civil War is hard to overstate, yet is often overlooked – while much the same can be said of …