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- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long and torturous edit process when it seemed that 'Zulu Hart,' the first of the trilogy, would never be fit for public consumption.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.
- Efficiently
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- Nov 07, 2020
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had during the whole Boer War.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million shells a year.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they go. The art of movement, therefore, is one of the most complex and vital that any commander must master if he is going to win.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse traction on snow and ice and prevent it from slipping.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
By Vietnam, the Jeep had given way to the helicopter, and it is hard to imagine a modern army fighting a war without this supremely adaptable workhorse.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century and did what foreign types do - they married into a penniless but well-bred local family.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, there were more Davids than any other name: more than 20 of us cousins out of 40 pupils. When my older cousins moved on, the school had to close.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to write about history and thought I needed a First.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In certain respects, he would outdo them both.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020