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News & Coming Soon
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This summer Robert Kershaw provided interview direction returning to the Arnhem battlefield for a DVD documentary entitled Arnhem 1944 One Bridge Too Far? from the World War II From Primary Sources Series. The DVD released in September 1944 is designed to coincide with the 65th Anniversary of the battle.
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Robert Kershaw is currently writing a human history of Airborne Forces from early developments to the present. Sky Men is due for publication in 2010. Vivid stories of Russian, German, British and the American experiences are covered, describing what it was like to jump or fly into battle by parachute and glider in the 1940s to helicopters in Vietnam and Afghanistan today. Read background
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| On 5th June Robert Kershaw was interviewed on This Morning ITV providing historical support for his father, who described his D-Day experiences as part of the 65th Anniversary of the Normandy landings in 1944. |
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| He is due to give a talk on Sky Men at the National Army Museum during the early evening of 21st July. |
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| D-Day: Piercing the Atlantic Wall - has been selected as a finalist book in the Army Historical Foundations's Distinguished Writing Awards in the United States. |
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| Recently he has spoken at one of the Bovington Tank Museum’s ‘Out of Hours’ Lectures on ‘Tank Men’, describing the typical tank crew experience during both World Wars. |
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| Never Surrender was lectured at the Salisbury Festival, an annual celebration of the arts and cultural events, on his new book ‘Never Surrender’, identifying the unique characteristics of the British Second World War generation. |
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Robert Kershaw has most recently been involved in interviews and filming for the National Geographic Land Warfare TV documentary series. In Part 2 Battle machines he filmed interviews inside a World War I British Mark IV Tank and driving and commentating from a Russian T-34 tank, describing the harsh physical and psychological condition crews had to endure.
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