ME AND MARGARET GEORGE
This is me at the Pont du Gard in Provence a couple of years ago. While I was guest speaker on a cruise ship going up and down the Rhone I took the opportunity to revisit some old haunts as part [...]
This is me at the Pont du Gard in Provence a couple of years ago. While I was guest speaker on a cruise ship going up and down the Rhone I took the opportunity to revisit some old haunts as part [...]
I should start by pointing out that the above spead-eagle image was the shield emblem of the 22nd Primigenia Legion, a Roman legion believed to have been founded by young emperor Caligula for his [...]
'A small masterpiece.' RALPH BENKO, realclearhistory.com, US 'Was Caligula really mad, bad and dangerous to know? Discover whether he deserves his infamy - or not - in this engrossing character [...]
As I will be telling listeners on ABC Radio across Australia this coming Sunday night on the Nightlife program, the night of March 24-25 is the 75th anniversary of the 1944 tunnel breakout by 76 [...]
After an absence of several years I’m returning to the Roman world. On July 30, Turner Publishing will release my biography of Rome’s third emperor, CALIGULA,The Mad Emperor of Rome, [...]
I’m delighted to learn that HEROES OF HAMEL is one of four books shotlisted for the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Military History Prize in Sydney. The winner will be announced at a function at [...]
The release of the new movie ‘First Man,’ the story of first man on the moon Neil Armstrong and the 1969 lunar landing, reminds me of when my wife Louise and I met and worked with [...]
By coincidence, out of the blue last week I was contacted by Brian Kenning of Washington DC. In the late 1970s Brian was a member of the crew of Robert Stigwood’s super-yacht [...]
This coming Saturday, September 15, 2018, I’ll be on stage at the Tamar Valley Writers Festival in Tasmania with my friend Ron Stigwood, nephew and former assistant to legendary music, [...]
One of my US publishers, Open Road Media, occasionally does special offers on e-book versions of some of my books, offering them for one day only for US$1.99. The promotion always generates [...]