Germany and France have reintroduced military service on a voluntary basis - it is time the British Government pivots and considers a similar scheme given the tensions emanating from Russia and the United States?

A review of A Woman Named Edith by Daria Santini, with additional commentary

The author describes his experiences appearing as a 'talking head' in a documentary about Cold War Berlin

At the time, most people were blissfully unaware of it, but 1983 became probably the closest the world got to nuclear war since the Cuban...

Sometimes when researching my books my various interests pleasantly collide. Yesterday while reading up on US Army installations in Cold...

Sixty years ago, on Sunday 13 August 1961, the citizens of Berlin woke up to a whole new reality – a divided city. In the early hours of...

My interest in the Cold War began back in 1986 when I visited West Berlin on, of all things, an orchestra tour. We were playing a series...

Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 1 is part of the Europe@War series from Helion. I was initially concerned that writing to an...

Welcome to my virtual book launch, for Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 1. A book written in lockdown and launched in lockdown, so...