A little about myself. I was born in the United States, grew up in Australia,  educated (to the best of my abilities) in Britain, worked in Canada, but now live in New York.  I took a doctorate in history from Cambridge, but then became a journalist. After that, I went into the History Business around the time my book, Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring, first appeared. It's since been used as the basis for the AMC drama series, Turn: Washington's Spies, on which I served as writer/producer. In 2020, I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (cue sound of a barrel being scraped). I’ve so far written five books. My first was Kings in the North, about the medieval Anglo-Scottish Wars, and then came Washington’s Spies,  American Rifle: A Biography, and Men of War: The American Experience of Battle at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima. My latest — Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World — appeared in April 2020. It tells the story of the Hindenburg and the struggle for mastery of the air during the Golden Age of aviation in the 1920s and 1930s.  I always like to hear from readers, so if you have any questions or comments or requests, please feel free to contact me, either by email, on Twitter, or through The FaceBook at the links below. 

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