Profile: Tony Crompton

In August 1939, on the eve of the Nazi invasion of their Homeland, the Poles took the painful decision to send three of the most powerful warships in their nascent Navy westward to fight alongside the Royal Navy. From this small nucleus, a potent naval fo....

Much of what has been written about World War 1 covers the citizen soldiers and their experiences in the trenches. The "Lost Brigade" is concerned with the opening stage of the war when Britain's small professional army, trained for small-scale imperial b....

Undeserving Poor records how our 19th Century forebears dealt with those of their fellow countrymen who found themselves - for the most part, through no fault of their own - in dire poverty. For almost a century, a draconian Victorian Poor Law condemned m....

Book 1 describes the military’s lukewarm attitude towards the use of aircraft at the start of the twentieth century, the progress made in the First World War but lost in the years of post-war austerity and the impact of the great depression. This was foll....

The previous book, Wings for the Lion, Book 1, The Folly, chronicled how provision of effective weapons into the hands of British combatants often occurred in spite of institutional thinking and, instead, through the determination of individuals who chall....