The Search
Looking for Truth in the Christian Religion

A fabulous book that I’m so excited to have read and conclude! John has written about his inspirational adventure with World War Two Veteran Patrick, searching for a vessel sunk under the English Channel… If you’re a fan of history, archaeology and heartwarming real stories, this is the book for you......more

I enjoy reading history, continually learning more and more from days gone by. I saw this book about the search for a boat sunk off the beaches of Normandy in 1944. I normally plow through a book but this one had me reading it over a couple weeks. I found many years ago, the book, “In Harms Way” abou......more

Packing a lot more emotion than many entries on history shelves, this attempt to 'reunite' a D-Day survivor with the wreck of his landing craft is a wonderful pick to show the power of closure. To see my full review, please click on [URL not allowed]......more

There are no stories in archaeology. It’s the nature of the science. Rather than a continuous story it produces a series of snapshots through time, like a strobe light illuminating single pages of the past: a series of frozen tableaux stretching into the past. As a writer writing about archaeology, t......more

'Military history' isn't a genre I read much (apart from an interest in war graves) and I came to this book via a circuitous route, ultimately simply because the author wrote the book... my initial awareness of him was for reasons of his minority cultural heritage, which don't feature in the book at......more