Book Review — Gran Sasso: a novel by Gary Parkins (ISBN-13 : 979-8456564931)
Reviewed for Hermes by Prosper Keating Gran Sasso is the latest novel by Gary Parkins, who…
- Posted on 04 Dec 2023
- 11 min read
Ukrainian War
By Paul Biddle MBE In this article, Paul Biddle MBE reminds us that Putin’s war on…
- Posted on 18 Oct 2023
- 18 min read
The NBC Parachute Trials of 1974
By Geoff Butler, Ex-2 and 10 PARA In the early 1970s, 16th Parachute Brigade took on…
- Posted on 13 Oct 2023
- 11 min read
PRA REORG
HERMES EDITOR PROSPER KEATING CHATS WITH NATIONAL SECRETARY PAUL RAISON Those of you who use social…
- Posted on 24 Aug 2023
- 20 min read
A LETTER FROM NOBBY ARNOLD
By Geoff Butler Hermes thanks those who supplied images, including www.paradata.org.uk Editor’s Foreword: The legendary Herbert…
- Posted on 26 Jul 2023
- 13 min read
The Kiel Canal Disaster 1974
BY GEOFF BUTLER EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The Kiel Canal accident on September 11th, 1974 is one of…
- Posted on 22 Jun 2023
- 54 min read
Parachute Regiment and SAS Veterans Jump on Arnhem 2022
British Airborne Forces veteran and author Simon Chambers, whose books include Devil’s Playground and Shadow of…
- Posted on 10 Oct 2022
- 32 min read
The PARA Who Wouldn’t Die…
By Ian Marshall Editorial Foreword The French surgeons who put Lee Crudgington back together again after…
- Posted on 05 Aug 2022
- 11 min read
Derek Chambers – Painting Paras
By Prosper Keating Derek Chambers is a self-taught painter. His natural talent and gift for scale…
- Posted on 04 Aug 2022
- 18 min read
The Aldershot Bombing 1972
AN OVERDUE MEMORIAL by PROSPER KEATING [Special thanks to Colin ‘Taff’ Edwards, Geoff Butler and others…
- Posted on 02 Jun 2022
- 52 min read
Army Parachute Jump Instructors Part 2
By Ian Marshall Editor’s Introduction Ian Marshall, who served with 2 PARA, the Pathfinder Platoon and…
- Posted on 15 Apr 2022
- 32 min read
Army PJIs Since 1940
by Prosper Keating On April 28th 2017, RAF Brize Norton issued a communiqué: “For the first…
- Posted on 20 Mar 2022
- 35 min read
Sangsak 1944 – Part 1
THE INDIAN ARNHEM by Myles Sanderson Foreword by the Editor If the small groups of 50th (Indian)…
- Posted on 20 Mar 2022
- 17 min read