Robin neillands

Military service: Royal Marines Commandos. Wars of the Roses , Cassell London, England , He has a special interest in British history, covering such disparate periods as the Hundred Years' War and the decline of the British Empire in the twentieth century. His military service as a Royal Marines commando has allowed him special insight and interest in the details of war.

As a travel writer Neillands has written about Ireland, Spain, and France. It is primarily as a historian that he has made his name, however. Spectator contributor Eric Christiansen observed that Neillands "has a gift of narrative, if not of accuracy," and went on to say that the book serves as "a colourful guide to where things happened, if not always why, or whether.

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Booklist reviewer Roland Green considered The Wars of the Roses a "model of its kind," praising its research, depth, and narrative skill. Neillands has written extensively and knowledgeably about World War II. D-Day, Voices from Normandy, cowritten with Roderick De Normann, gathers accounts from a wide array of individuals involved in the military campaign.

A reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement appreciated the way the book integrates these accounts into a smooth narrative, and concluded that, as an intimate view of events, the book "is unlikely to be bettered.