Project News

March 2012

Feature review in the Irish Independent—Ireland’s highest-selling broadsheet

“Encapsulates Ireland’s international military tradition [and] sheds light on forgotten history… It is this fighting spirit that is rightly celebrated in this book”—Irish Independent

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/review-military-history-the-fighting-irish-the-story-of-the-extraordinary-irish-soldier-by-tim-newark-3038587.html

Fighting Irish featured as a Book of the Month on Galway Bay Fm Radio and in Galway Advertiser:

“Reading this fascinating book over the St Patrick’s Day festivities would be as good a way as any and better than most, to celebrate what it is to be Irish"

Review in Irish Times:

“During the 19th and early 20th centuries there were few major conflicts at which Irishmen were not present; and not infrequently, as in the Boer War, they were to be found on both sides. Newark’s method of navigating through this morass is to write short, pacy, chapters that draw heavily on first-hand accounts. This approach works well in providing colour and first-hand perspective…”

Also in UK:

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Irish-ready-fight-came-Bath/story-15364882-detail/story.html

 

February 2012

Irish Publishing News carries this story:

‘In an interesting shift, an Irish radio interview has led to an ebook edition of a book spiking on Amazon’s bestseller lists. Constable author, Tim Newark, whose book, The Fighting Irish was the subject of a Pat Kenny interview Wednesday 22nd February. By the end of the day the book had climbed to the top of the Kindle Irish History bestseller charts and had spiked in the paperback Irish History Bestseller charts. It remains at #5 on the Kindle chart and #88 on the print bestseller charts a day later. It’s an example of how the immediacy of availability can move units and drive sales for publishers.’

http://www.irishpublishingnews.com/

‘Fighting Irish’ radio feature interviews on ‘Today with Pat Kenny' and ‘Talking History’ on RTE.

Newspaper features on ‘Fighting Irish’ in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Belfast Telegraph, Birmingham Mail and Post

http://examiner.ie/features/soldiers-of-mixed-fortune-183938.html

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/how-the-fighting-irish-took-up-arms-on-foreign-shores-16111139.html

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2012/02/09/birmingham-soldier-survived-land-rover-bomb-blast-by-not-wearing-seat-belt-97319-30293998/

 

January 2012

‘Fighting Irish’ chosen as Irish Times Books to Read in 2012

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1231/1224309652002.html

‘Fighting Irish’ highlighted in the Irish Examiner as one of the 100 things to look out for in 2012.

http://www.examiner.ie/weekend/features/the-hot-100-179145.html

Contributed chapter to Frontline’s ‘Sniper Anthology’

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sniper-Anthology-Snipers-World-War/dp/1848326254/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328460087&sr=1-1

 

December 2011

Five-star review of ‘Empire of Crime’ in City AM newspaper:

“Tim Newark’s fantastic book is dedicated to colonial policemen (like George Orwell) who ‘put their lives on the line, doing the right thing’. By the closing chapters, one realises just how true that is... Vast swathes of national and international history are dealt with masterfully here, and chapters are driven by chunks – not titbits, but real, meaty chunks – of important new material discovered by diligent, old-fashioned primary resource research. It’s history as it’s meant to be: clear, unpretentious, exciting, authoritative and enthusiastic. This is unquestionably one of my books of the year.”

http://www.cityam.com/lifestyle/all-you-never-knew-about-crime-the-british-empire

 

November 2011

Gave seminar on ‘Mythology of Lucky Luciano’ at University College London for Italian studies students with Professor John Dickie.

 

September 2011

Gave lecture on 'Marilyn Monroe and the Mob' at the American Museum, Bath

Reviews of ‘Empire of Crime’:

‘Snappy as Spillane, this book is packed with girls, guns and guts. The violent milieu explored by Newark is not South Side Chicago but the British Empire’—The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/empire-of-crime-by-tim-newark-2355260.html

‘Probing areas which historians have usually tactfully avoided, Newark has lifted the curtain on a hidden era of the British Empire’—Glasgow Herald

'Boardwalk Gangster: the Real Lucky Luciano' published to coincide with screening of second season of 'Boardwalk Empire' HBO TV series in the US.

Reviewed Richard Holmes' 'Soldiers' for Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/95df775c-d3dd-11e0-bc6b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1WsLQiAWJhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/95df775c-d3dd-11e0-bc6b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1WsLQiAWJ

 

August 2011

News coverage of 'Empire of Crime' in the UK national press, including stories in the Daily Mail, “one of Britain’s leading historians”, Daily Express, and Metro, regional newspapers, local radio and widely on the web.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2026072/HMS-Belfast-used-Triad-gangsters-ferry-10m-heroin-final-voyage.html

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/265027/HMS-Belfast-carried-10m-smuggled-heroin-on-final-voyage-

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-life/liverpool-lifestyle/2011/08/31/the-story-of-drug-producing-in-gangland-liverpool-in-the-early-1900s-100252-29333397/

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Book-links-Triads-British-Navy/story-13201281-detail/story.html

http://mafiatoday.com/general-breaking-news/hms-belfast-used-by-chinese-gangsters-to-ferry-10m-of-heroin-on-her-final-voyage/

http://www.newsbucket.co.uk/2011/08/15/hms-belfast-used-by-triad-gangsters-to-ferry-10m-of-heroin-on-her-final-voyage-daily-mail/

http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/news/Front+Page/20110815/24824550/HMS-Belfast-was-used-by-Triad-members-to.htm

http://netshaker.co.uk/News/hms-belfast-was-used-by-triad-members-to-ferry-heroine-on-her-last-voyage/

http://www.navy-net.co.uk/history/62496-mail-hms-belfast-used-triads-ferry-%A310m-heroin-her-final-voyage.html

http://www.pathfinderonline.co.uk/articles/item/419-hms-belfast-used-by-chinese-gangsters-to-ferry-%C2%A310m-of-heroin-on-her-final-voyage

 

June 2011

Reviewed 'Sea Wolves' in Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/995688de-9c16-11e0-bef9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1QSn8gJzt

 

May 2011

Reviewed 'Black Watch' for the Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bc60ecb6-8267-11e0-8c49-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1O77Y36JQ

Featured in Lucky Luciano documentary screened on UK Yesterday channel

 

April 2011

'Lucky Luciano' reviewed in BBC History Magazine:

'Using a range of official sources and dissecting some of the dubious memoirs of mobsters, including that of Luciano himself, Tim Newark provides what is, probably, the most balanced biography of a man who often claimed to be a victim, but had little thought for his own victims.'

Reviewed 'Our Friends Beneath the Sands' for the Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/407290ce-66e1-11e0-8d88-00144feab49a.html#axzz1JfwZE2aw

 

February 2011

Reviewed ‘Gallipoli’ for Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c80a64b0-2fe3-11e0-a7c6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1DNrsF8Zi

Filmed for documentary on Mafia in WW2 to be screened later this year

 

January 2011

UK edition of ‘Lucky Luciano’ gets four-star review in News of the World: 'A must for true crime fans.' News stories on Luciano also appear in The Scotsman, Daily Sport, local newspapers and international websites.

http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/news/Undefined-Headline/article-3093454-detail/article.html

http://news.scotsman.com/arts/Mobster-who-inspired-The-Godfather.6680956.jphttp://iocni.com/the-dudfather-gangster-who-inspired-vito-corleone-was-a-fake/

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/news/800005416/british-historian-debunks-myth-of-gangster-charles-lucky-luciano.html

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Godfather-inspiration-was-a-fraud/Article1-647214.aspx

http://fivefamiliesnyc.blogspot.com/2011/01/charles-lucky-luciano-fake-mobster.html

http://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/2011/01/book-claims-that-lucky-luciano.html

 

November 2010

Lucky Luciano selected by best-selling historian Andrew Roberts as one of his Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year

“Living in the United States now, I’m trying to read exciting books about the place and have hugely enjoyed Tim Newark’s well-written and well-researched biography of the Mafia boss Lucky Luciano (Thomas Dunne Books).”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8160139/Books-of-the-Year-Part-1.html

Extract from Luciano on top US Mafia website

http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_464.html

Reviewed ‘The Gun’ for the Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b0857cda-ede9-11df-8616-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz15ZPWW3Fb

 

October 2010

August 2010

Commented on WW1 postcard of savage Scots for BBC Radio 4 Today Programme and Scotland on Sunday

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/39Savage-Scots39-wish-you-weren39t.6487746.jp?articlepage=2

Reviewed Bomber County for Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/712c4650-abe9-11df-bfa7-00144feabdc0.html

 

July 2010

Reviewed 'Danger UXB' for Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8a4eafc0-9b62-11df-8239-00144feab49a.html

 

June 2010

Gave lecture on 'Highlanders: Stormers or Cannon Fodder?' at the National Army Musuem, London

 

May 2010

Reviewed 'Katyn 1940' for Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1b0a5ecc-595c-11df-99ba-00144feab49a.html

Research trip to Ireland: Dublin, Athlone and Belfast

 

April 2010

March 2010

US edition of 'Highlander' reviewed in Publishers Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/448718-Nonfiction_Book_Reviews_2_15_2010.php

Review of Terence Zuber's 'Mons Myth' for Financial Times

 

January 2010

Two lectures on camouflage at Central St Martin's College of Art and Design

Review of military history books for Time Out

 

December 2009

Reviewed Peter Forbes' 'Dazzled and Deceived' for the Financial Times

Full page review feature on 'Highlander' in Camden New Journal & Islington Tribune

 

November 2009

'Highlander' selected as a 'Best Books of the Year' by best-selling historian Andrew Roberts in the London Evening Standard

Interview with author about 'Highlander' on Newstalk, Ireland's biggest independent radio station

Five star Book of the Week review of 'Highlander' in the Press & Journal

Review of 'Highlander' in Soldier magazine

 

October 2009

Features commenting on Trump vs Swinton controversy in Press & Journal, Aberdeen Evening Express, huffingtonpost.com , usatoday.com , timesonline

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-j-trump/my-new-golf-course-a-sour_b_323741.html

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1440946?UserKey=

Two-page review of 'Highlander' in The Scotsman

Features on 'Highlander' in Press & Journal, Inverness Courier, and Bath Chronicle

Lecture on 'Highlander' at The Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
Talk on 'Highlander' at Inverness Book Festival

 

September 2009

Review of 'Highlander' in Defence Focus
Review of 'Highlander' in Ancestors

 

August 2009

Review of military history books for Time Out

 

April 2009

Research in New York and Washington archives for new mobster book for St Martin's Press

 

March 2009

Military history consultant/writer for Royal Mint medals project

 

February 2009

Military history consultant/writer for Royal Mail uniforms project
Military history book reviews for TimeOut

 

January 2009

Gave two lectures on Camouflage at St Martin's School of Art, London
General Editor of 'The Worldwide History of Warfare' published by Thames & Hudson