Foodish History: Rum-Laced tea This wasn't a cheeky practice among Bomber Command airmen, this was official RAF catering and drunk in the presence of the station chaplain. Read More During the research for my book Heart in the Clouds, I lost count of the number of...
Foodish History: A Bomber Command breakfast Read More When I think about food during World War II, I usually think about the scarcity of it. Rationing was tight for people at home, especially during the early years of the war when shipping lanes were compromised and...
How Winston Churchill used words as Weapons And my favourite three Churchill quotes Read more I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the evolving nature of English, how the meaning of words changes over time, and how communicators have to be alert to these changes....
The man who inspired my first book The real story of the war doesn’t lie on the battlefield, it lies in the millions of little stories of human lives intersecting with a world at war. Read the Story In a speech on the BBC in 1940s, Winston Churchill said this: This is...
