Category: History

I ordered a book from Adelaide Booksellers, yes, in Adelaide, on 9th January.

Last week I was invited to the Savile to hear Simon Heffer talk about Chips Channon’s diaries, of which he has edited two volumes with one more due in September.

Chips Channon’s misjudgements about the course of the war and politics make good reading.

Here is Chips striking a different note.

Virginia Cowles describes another visit to the front.

If you read JBS Haldane’s entry in Wikipedia and you should, you will not read about the Spanish civil war.

I love a long train journey. My longest, so far, was Barons Court to Shanghai in 2013; starting on the Piccadilly Line in London and ending on the maglev train (268 mph) to Shanghai airport.