During my days in submarines, I and several others spent far too much time down near the Falkland Islands for our liking. This was in...

Who would have thought that a torpedo test ship would have such an impact on the conduct of the First World War? On 2 August 1914, the...

Yesterday, I was very privileged to visit the village of Elsfield in Oxfordshire, where the author John Buchan once lived and his ashes...

A namesake of mine was the German Intelligence Service's spymaster in Britain during the period leading up to the outbreak of WW1. W...

My third book, The Wings of the Wind, is with my publisher for scrutiny. Whilst I await my fate, I have begun work on my fourth novel,...

My third book, The Wings of the Wind, is with my publisher for scrutiny. Whilst I await my fate, I have begun work on my fourth novel,...

I am delighted to announce that I have just submitted my third novel to my publisher. Part of my For Those in Peril series, this story...

Mention the word 'Gallipoli' in the context of WW1 and most people think of a disaster on the beaches and the Allies' failure to force a...

Today in 1919, the Women's Royal Naval Service was disbanded, only to be reinstated in 1939. The WRNS was formed during WW1, in November...

Yesterday, HM the Queen marked the start of GCHQ's centenary celebrations. In 1919, the Royal Navy's Room 40, of which I write in my...

The current and all past heads of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) are and have been known as 'C', for "Chief", but the first...

Today (4th February) in 1915, the German government announced that it would impose a submarine blockade of Great Britain with effect 18th...

I have just finished a section of my latest book that is set during the siege of Antwerp in 1914. In conducting my research, I came...

Both of today’s security services, namely MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service (known popularly as MI6) derive from the original...

I am very excited to have received in today’s post, a first-edition copy of Charles Rumney Samson’s autobiography, Fights and Flights,...

My new book will be launched in just under two weeks' time. It tells the tale of a young man's reluctant entry into Britain's embryonic...

With just five weeks to go before the publication of my pre-WW1 espionage thriller, Now the Darkness Gathers, here is a taster of what...

In all my writing, I have three aims; to entertain, to inform and to inspire. To achieve the latter two objectives, I carry out...

In the next of my novels to be published, Now the Darkness Gathers, the opening chapter describes some of the events that took place at...

I have just sent the final proofs back to my publisher for the next novel in my series about the Miller family in WW1. It was odd to read...