James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts.He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.

"Old-fashioned, testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics" Mail on Sunday "Sharpe for the Blitz years...a meaty, all action yarn!" Sunday Telegraph "Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff, and his descriptions of the action are terrific" Daily Telegraph "Has the sure touch of someone who knows their subject and enjoys it" Daily Mail "This is a well-researched page-turner that keeps you hungry for more. An exciting tale full of historical details and action" Soldier magazine

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts.He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.

"Old-fashioned, testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics" Mail on Sunday "Sharpe for the Blitz years...a meaty, all action yarn!" Sunday Telegraph "Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff, and his descriptions of the action are terrific" Daily Telegraph "Has the sure touch of someone who knows their subject and enjoys it" Daily Mail "This is a well-researched page-turner that keeps you hungry for more. An exciting tale full of historical details and action" Soldier magazine