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Butcher and Bolt
The second exciting book in the Joe Dean series – Butcher and Bolt is now available for free!
Blood and Blitzkrieg
Read about Will’s first novel Blood and Blitzkrieg—the first book in the Joe Dean series of World War 2 action adventure novels.
Will’s Blog
Historical information, personal musings, and excerpts from the sequel to Blood and Blitzkrieg, Butcher and Bolt.
The more things change…
Watching the wars in Ukraine and Gaza from the safe distance of Australia, it’s clear some aspects of warfare have changed utterly, while others haven’t changed at all. In Ukraine, drones rule the battlefield. While it might seem like an obvious cliche, that battlefield really has started to resemble the opening scenes of Terminator 2. […]
The counter-offensive
There’s been a fair bit of criticism lately of the Ukrainian counter-offensive and its failure to make rapid progress. Western allies are now making noises about withholding support unless they see some progress. With some justification the Ukrainian government has responded by saying every “square centimetre of Ukrainian soil has to be retaken with blood”. […]
War in Europe again
Unbelievably, 76 years after the Nazis were forced out of Ukraine by the Russian army, the Russian army is back once more, this time as the aggressor rather than the liberator. Back in 1944 some (non-Jewish) Ukrainians may have wondered whether being liberated by the Russians was an improvement on occupation by the Nazis, recalling […]