Peter Caddick-Adams

Dec 27, 2024 | express.co.uk | Peter Caddick-Adams

18:55, Fri, Dec 27, 2024 | UPDATED: 18:55, Fri, Dec 27, 2024 Link copied Bookmark It started with a vicious ripple of cannon at 5.30am on a wintry morning. No inch of the 80-mile Allied front was spared. The date was December 16, 1944 and the mighty Nazi army was embarking on its last bid to win the war for Hitler. In blinding snow, German infantry and tanks filed into the forests of the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg. They had waited until weather conditions were at their worst.

Oct 2, 2024 | express.co.uk | Peter Caddick-Adams

Former British prime minister Winston Churchill and wife Clementine arrive in Switzerland in 1946 (Image: Getty Images)I remember bidding in a Midlands auction house for a set of old fishing flies. The price rocketed and they were eventually sold to a friend. Their value was that they had once belonged to Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister of the brolly and the ill-fated Munich Agreement. Premiership comes with many trappings, but huge stress.

Apr 11, 2024 | armees.com | Peter Caddick-Adams

Extrait du livre De Sable et d'Acier, de Peter Caddick-Adams, éditions Passé Composé, qui retrace de la manière la plus complète de la préparation au Jour J, du débarquement du 6 juin 1944. Si toutes les opérations militaires ont leur Jour J, il n’y a, pour le grand public, qu’un seul Jour J1 : le 6 juin 1944.

Jan 12, 2024 | express.co.uk | Peter Caddick-Adams

They have their own army, navy and airforce, as well as a strategic rocket force (Image: Getty)For too long Iran has been able to use its military might to promote conflict, murder and mayhem far beyond its borders. It has several competing militias of which its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are the most doctrinally pure. By this, I mean they are the armed group most ideologically in line with the country’s religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and the most virulently anti-Western.

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | John McManus |Charles Macdonald |Antony Beevor |Peter Caddick-Adams

How many historians can claim to have fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a rifle company commander, documented it as a combat historian, and then written about it as a popular author? Only the great Charles B. MacDonald. In this remarkable work, published on the fortieth anniversary of the battle, he managed to convey both the human and strategic dimensions without missing a rhetorical beat.