Warfare in News

Posted on Friday 14th October

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For details of author signing events for Healing in Hell see the upcoming events calendar.

Further Reading

Healing in Hell

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Healing in Hell

(Hardback - 180 pages)
by Ken Adams

Like many thousands of other unsuspecting young soldiers, Ken Adams was sent out to the Far East during the Second World War. He immediately saw action on the Malay Peninsula before being captured at Singapore. As a trained medic he was initially assigned to work at Changi Hospital, where conditions were bad enough. However, this was only the start of the three-year ordeal and many moves and far worse camps in Thailand were to follow.Read more...

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Healing in Hell - Memoirs of a Far Eastern POW Medic

Wed 6th August

This article is based on extracts from Ken Adams' Second World War memoirs of life as a POW medic in the Far East. From the fall of Singapore to the difficulties of returning home. Contains graphic images. Read article...

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Peter Stone - How I wrote My Book

Mon 25th September

In writing my new book The History of the Port of London – A Vast Emporium of All Nations I could explore aspects of two of my passions: the development of London as a city, as well as waterborne transport. Read article...

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The 37th Division at Arras

Wed 5th April

A Pen and Sword title with an exceptionally vivid, first-hand account of the battle of Arras is Despatch Rider on the Western Front 1915-18, the diary of Sergeant Albert Simpkin MM, edited by his great nephew, David Venner Read article...

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The Untold Heroes of Helmand

Mon 15th August

Ten years on, and now the Heroes of Helmand are heard. Read article...

Dates in History

Wannsee Conference

20th January 1942

Held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942, the purpose of the conference was to inform heads of German Government Departments that had responsibility for various policies relating to Jews of Reinhard Heydrich's appointment as the sole executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish question", and to obtain their agreement to subordinate their policies to him.

Further Reading

The Gestapo
(Hardback - 352 pages)
by Jacques Delarue

'This book won't let the world forget . . . It details the background of this terror organization and its formation, the personalities who created it – the Goerings, the Himmlers, the Heydrichs – and how each added to its refinement as an instrument of torture.' – New York Daily… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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