Welcome to my military history website.

If you are not yet familiar with my work, I am pleased to invite you to come in, have a look around, and sample some of my research and writing. If you have already seen my books, I am pleased to offer you some background information and some extra details that did not quite make it into my published work.

Much of this site has to do with the Normandy campaign of 1944, my main area of study. Familiar place names: Caen, Bayeux, Villers-Bocage, Falaise. Familiar battlefields and Operations: EPSOM, GOODWOOD, and BLUECOAT. Familiar unit names: Argylls, Seaforth, Hussars and Yeomanry; Hitler Youth, Frundsberg, Hohenstaufen, and other SS-Panzer divisions. Duels of Sherman and Cromwell tanks against Panzer IV and Sturmgeschütze; Churchills against Panther and Tiger; Bren against MG42.

Why mythbuster? Well, as I make clear in the 'about writing' section of this site, I continue to be surprised - indeed, appalled - by the quantity of widely accepted myth in military history that simply does not withstand close scrutiny. No one is perfect; in this website I freely acknowledge, and correct, some imperfections that have crept into my own work. But some of the errors perpetrated in the name of  'military history' are frankly unacceptable.

If you would like to jump straight to information about my latest book, please click the tank image below.

                                                                                                     Ian

Top image: 3 August 1944, approximately 16.00 hours (DBST), Churchill tanks of 4th (Tank) Grenadier Guards carrying elements of 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers pass the destroyed Panzer IV (Ausf. H, of 2. Panzerdivision) beside the church in le Tourneur.

Image below: 1 August 1944, approximately 19.00 hours (DBST), the same Panzer IV burns beside le Tourneur church, photographed by United States 30th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron.

Images © Crown Copyright 1944/MOD are reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1944 aerial photography by United States forces reproduced by permission of the FOIA Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington DC.