Over the coming years I will be writing a number of books that are all to do with military history, many of which will specifically coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the First World War.
Most of them are local history books and cover towns in Essex, Kent, County Durham, City of London, Channel Islands and France. Watch this space for the dates when they will be available in the shops and on line via Amazon.
There will also be books on the Second World War, specifically on the City of London, and the county of Kent, the disaster at Slapton Sands, the Holocaust, the raid on Dieppe, the Holocaust, War time Spies, and many more. The full list of my forthcoming books is listed below.
Take a look to see if there is something that takes your fancy.
This book looks at the history of the Police use of firearms from the inception of policing to the current day. The world has changed greatly in that time, where the image of the bobby on the beat, maybe holding a pistol that could fire six bullets, is now a combination of Rambo and Robocop. The story will look closely at some of the more high profile Police related shootings of modern times, as well as Police officers who have themselves been killed by gunmen. The author was himself a firearms officer for nearly nine years during his Police career, spending nearly eight years as part of a specialist firearms unit, that dealt with all kinds of firearms related incidents, allowing him to draw any many of those experiences, as well as those of his colleagues whom he worked with.
It makes for an interesting read, written by somebody who was involved in more than a hundred firearms incidents throughout the 1990’s. A first hand account of what it was like to be part of the thin blue line, when a split second decision could literarily mean the difference between life and death.
Due for release date: March 2024.
This is a book about a collection of letters sent throughout the years of the Second World War, by Hilda Jarrett to Her husband Clifford Jarrett, later Sir Clifford. Hilda was living with their two children at her sisters home in Wrexham, whilst Clifford was working at the Admiralty in London, as the Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and then after he became Prime Minister, his replacement, Albert Victor Alexander.
The letters, which are beautifully written by Hilda, are a continuous family update of what she and the children are doing as they go about their day today lives. Many of the letters are quite humorous, although that was not their intention. This aspect is purely down to how Hilda views the world.
Besides being letters written by a devoted wife and mother, they are also an excellent record of social history of the time, as seen through the eyes of a wartime lady from a certain class of society. A very enjoyable and interesting read.
Due for release date: TBA
This is a story of horrible and ghastly treatment of both civilian and Allied POW’s by the Japanese, but it is also their research and experimentation, some of which is carried out on live human beings, as they prepare themselves from becoming involved in bacteriological warfare.
The book shows the depravity’s that man is capable of. Even during a time of war, what the Japanese did was an utter disgrace and more than over stepped the line in what was acceptable and unacceptable.
Sadly, although the Japanese government have now acknowledged what their troops did during the Second World War, they have never apologised, and have flatly refused to now pay reparations to the families of those who they murdered or brutalised in their quest to win the war, no matter what the cost.
Another aspect of this story which is just as distasteful is the fact that at the end of the war both the Americans and the Soviet Union did deals with the Japanese to secure the research, and those who had been involved in its implementation, in return for not being put on trial, or punished for the part they played during the Second World War. Out of more than 3,000 personnel who were part of Japan’s Unit 731, only 12 were ever put on trial, and although some of them received prison sentences of 25 years, none of them served more than 7.
Due for release date: TBA