The Borderline Anti-Memory PastBook asks questions a diary does not ask and raises the questions to dialectics and answers them in a way a memory work does not answer questions.
Historian, primary expertise German history 1918-1945. My first book won prize for best title and best cover art; my second won prize for best historical biography.
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I have always written, starting with poetry, short stories and finally non-fiction. I am an authority on the Weimar Republic and the Nazis and my second book won a prize for best historical biography. My third book was a light-hearted one about my local area, co-written with my wife Janet who also took most of the photos. My most recent book is a study of psychic warfare during World War Two.
Pope and Voznesensky are my favourite poets. I have won prizes for my translations. My favourite novelists are Dickens, Dostoievski and Caroline Glyn and my favourite dramatist is, of course, Shakespeare. I write history because I believe that unless we learn from the past we have no future.