Colin Smith

"Colin Smith, a veteran war correspondent, has built an impressive reputation as a military historian," noted Max Hastings in a review of 'England's Last War Against France' now available in the US for $3.99 as a Sharpe ebook. Smith, whose award winning journalism took him from Saigon to Sarajevo, writes similar narrative histories as Hastings and Rick Atkinson though his subject matter can be less familiar. In 'Singapore Burning' (also $3.99 in US ebook format) he concentrates on the bitter retreat down the Malay Peninsula that preceded the fall of Singapore. His account of Britain's forgotten war within a war against Pétain's Vichy French covers all its land, sea and air fighting. More recently he completed a revision of Andrew Borowiec's wartime memoir 'Warsaw Boy' for Viking Penguin. His work, praised by a wide range of reviewers, also includes the novels 'Collateral Damage' (first published by Viking, New York as 'The Cut Out') 'Spies of Jerusalem', and 'Let Us Do Evil'. www.colin-smith.info