The mud fields of Passchendaele in western Belgium in late 1917, three years into the Great War, and twenty-three-year-old Private Arthur James Hamp, a former bootmaker from Islington
The summer of 1942, the war raging in Europe and Africa, Allied shipping is threatened by Luftwaffe forces based in the occupied Greek island of Rhodes; an all-out
July, 1943, almost three years after the Battle of Britain and two years past the worst of the London Blitz and, shortly thereafter, the entry of America into
Just across the border from Northern Ireland, the land to the north is regarded as “occupied territory” by the men who meet covertly at Fagan’s Garage as they
London, the cusp of what was to be the bitterly cold winter of 1962 to 1963, and Hugo Barrett arrives at the Knightsbridge address of his potential employer,
