Fiction
The Rendezvous
It had been dicey over the Big City. The flak had been murderous on the run-in and the radar predicted, master searchlights seemed to have had an unnerving accuracy that night. You could tell the [more…]
Articles by Blown Periphery
Fiction
Némésis – Book 2 Part 10
8/9th February 2018 – Pakistan, Afghanistan, Washington DC and Islamabad FCO Travel Advice for Pakistan: Local travel The Pakistan authorities currently advise that “all foreigners, including diplomats may not move out of their city of [more…]
16th Century
The Grand Siege of Malta 1565 – Part 3
The Attack on Fort St Elmo The Grand Master assumed that the Turks would continue to attack the forts of St Angelo and St Michael, but two Christian renegades who had become Muslims to save [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Book 2 Part 9
6th February 2018 – RAF Northolt Cécile, was in the grip of one of her terrifying, lucid dreams. They had begun not long after her brother and father were killed in an air crash. In [more…]
16th Century
The Grand Siege of Malta 1565 – Part 2
The Opposing Forces – The Muslims The army of Suliman the Magnificent was an impressive force that was both hated and feared throughout Europe. Unusually for the time the infantry were the elite, the Janissaries [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Book 2 Part 8
Afghanistan 041135L February 2018 – 45,000 feet external temperature -56.7 °C The Boeing RC 135 Rivet Joint of the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron, was just over two-and-a-half hours into its patrol. It had taken off from [more…]
16th Century
The Grand Siege of Malta 1565 – Part 1
Malta, a small bastion on the southern flank of Europe, was the island fortress of the Knights Hospitaller and in 1565 it was besieged by the huge Turkish army of Emperor Suliman. The Turkish forces [more…]
Fiction
Némésis – Book 2 Part 7
Fallout Phillips came down to breakfast and saw Cécile sitting on her own reading a newspaper. He was bristling with annoyance, “I thought the agreement was I would come and get you and we would [more…]
20th Century
The Sinking of the MS Estonia – 28th September 1994
The History of the MS Estonia On Wednesday 28th September 1994 at 01:50 (UTC +2) the MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea during a storm, on a routine crossing from the port of Tallinn [more…]