Thursday 21st March 2024. If there was anything good to take away from the visit to Buchenwald concentration camp it was seeing the number of…
Author: Steve Darlow
Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Neheim and the Möhne Dam. Having visited Rheinberg War Cemetery, I headed for Neheim and the Möhne Dam, to further…
Wednesday 20th March 2024 – Rheinberg War Cemetery. When I interviewed Pathfinder pilot Desmond Pelly he told me, ‘My feeling has always been that I…
This evening, 6/7 March, marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of Bomber Command’s direct support to operation Overlord, exactly three months before the 6th…
During the research for the book Flightpath to Murder, published in 2009, I visited the cemetery at Emmerich, Germany and the mass grave of those…
Below is a picture of Dick Haine, who served as a bomb aimer on a 50 Squadron Lancaster and was killed on a raid on…
Saddened to hear about the passing of one of the most influential history writers of recent times, Martin Middlebrook. Reading his ‘First Day on the…
The competitive pedants on social media have been busy, voicing opinions, nay, grave concerns in regard authenticity in historical dramas. Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ raised eyebrows,…
Delighted to have been able to present some vignettes from my play ‘Their Finest Hour’, with actors Tabitha Baines and Emma Kemp, and producer Auriole…
In 2016 I had the honour to publish ‘You Never Know Your Luck’, the biography of Battle of Britain pilot and Great Escaper Keith ‘Skeets’…