Gary Sheffield Professor of War Studies university of Birmingham

RUSI Journal August 2009

‘Never Surrender is a very necessary correction to some of the more nostalgic and gung ho books on Britain in the Second World War. It evokes the brutal reality of total war in an effective and chilling way’.

Daily Mail 16 March 2009

‘Haunting…a moving testimony’.


Never Surrender was serialised in the Daily Mail between 15-17 March and extracts appeared in the Sunday Express 23 August 2009.