A little about my background
Although I worked for nearly thirty years in the law and related fields my main passion has always been for
military history, with a bias toward the high
Middle Ages and Tudors. Living in the heart of the historic Anglo Scottish Borderland stimulated my interest in
'The Steel Bonnets' - the sixteenth century border reivers. As a boy I read Scott and classic accounts such as
'Border Raids and Reivers' by Borland and latterly George MacDonald Fraser's
'The Steel Bonnets'.
My publications to date are:
1. 'Battle for Northumbria' – Bridge Studios 1988
2. 'They Made Tyneside Great' – Bloodaxe 1994
3. 'Scottish Battles' – Canongate 1996
4. 'War in the North 1461 – 1464' – Partizan 2000
5. 'Border Fury – The Three Hundred Years War' – Longmans 2004
6. 'A History of Morpeth Golf Club' – Bridge Studios 2005
7. 'Battle of Harlaw 1411' – Tempus 2005
8. 'Battle of Flodden 1513' – Osprey 2005
9. 'Pub Walks in Northumberland' – Countryside Books 2006
10.'Battle of Culloden 1746' – Tempus 2006
11.'Raiders & Reivers' – Ergo Press 2006
12.'Battle for Crete 1941' – Pen & Sword 2006
13.'Battle of Bannockburn 1314' – Pen & Sword 2007
14.'Battle of Hexham 1464' – Ergo Press 2007
15.'The Second Barons’ War 1264 – 1267' – Pen & Sword 2008
16.'Massacre of Glencoe 1692' – Amberley 2008
17.'Lancaster and York 1453 – 1487' – Longmans 2009
18.'Blood on the Wave' (Scottish Battles at Sea) – Birlinn 2010
19.'Battle of El Alamein 1942' – Amberley Press 2010
20.'Battle of Towton 1461' – Pen & Sword 2010
21.'Lost Voices of the Desert War' – Amberley Press 2010
22.'Dunkirk to Belsen' - JR Books 2010
23.'The Great Siege of Newcastle 1644' (with Rosie)- History Press 2011
24.'The Little Book of Newcastle' (with Rosie) - History Press 2011
25.'Battle of Flodden 1513' (with Rosie) - History Press 2013
26.'Tommy at War 1914 - 1918' (with Rosie) - Robson Press 2013
27.'Tommy Rot' (with Rosie) - History Press 2013
28.'Ode to Bully Beef' (with Rosie) - History Press 2014
29.'As Good As Any Man' with Rosie, Morag Miller & Roy Laycock)- History Press 2014
30.'Blood Divide' (fiction) - Lion Hudson 2014
31.'Ghost Patrol' - a new history of LRDG - Casemate 2015
32.'Bertie Buck's Suicide Club' - Operation Agreement 1942 - Osprey 2016
33. 'Spy of the Century - Alfred Redl', with Silvie Fisch [2016]
34. 'Caesar's Greatest Victory - Alesia 52BC', with Rosie Serdiville - Casemate 2017
35. 'Lords of Redesdale' - Friends of Harbottle Castle 2017
36. Casemate Short History of Air Aces - 2017
37. Casemate Short History of Tommy Atkins - 2017
38. Casemate Short History of Knights & Chivalry - 2017
39. Casemate short History of Medieval castles - 2018
40. 'Blitzing Rommel' (fiction) 2018 - Endeavor Press
41. England's Trail of Tears', 2019 - Pen & Sword
42. D-Day; the British Beaches, 2019 - Amberley
43. The Hot Trod, 2022 - Amberley
44. Crucible of Conflict, 2023 - Whittles
45. The Gurkha Way, 2023 - Pen and Sword
46. The Heavy Water War - Beating Hitler to the Bomb, 2023 - Amberley
47. Island Warriors, 2024 - Amberley
I'm currently working on a biography of the last Viking King of Northumbria, the wonderfully named Eirik Bloodaxe, due on the bookstands next spring.
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