1945 The Reckoning

Best review ever - from author Antonia Senior

Review from Daily Express and Daily Mirror below

From The Australian below

From Aspect of History magazine

From Canada's Legion magazine

Phil Craig confronts colonialism in new book - Legion MagazineBritish author and filmmaker Phil Craig has long anticipated completing his book trilogy on the Second World War. First came Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain in 1999, co-written with Tim Clayton. In 2002, a second collaborative effort—again with Clayton—produced End of the Beginning, retracing the desperate days from May to November 1942 to coincide …

From Robert Lyman's WAR ROOM blog below

Before I went on holiday I got my hands on an advance copy of @philmcraig 1945 The Reckoning.

I hadn’t read Phil’s other books. So, I had no idea what to expect.

What I found is a master story teller at his prime and a book I couldn’t put down…

1945 The Reckoning is an epic story that ranges across the globe from Berlin to Vietnam, which he expertly tells through the experiences of those caught up in the conflict – and on both sides of it.

He skilfully avoids nostalgia, tells uncomfortable truths, and yet ends up with a balanced account of what the end of the war meant for the coloniser and colonised.

I highly recommend it

Mark Piesing, reviewer (via X)

From Sam Rubenstein in Engelsberg Ideas magazine