Darkest Hour

Overview: James Holland is a writer and historian. In April 2003, he published his first work of history, Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43 (Orion), which became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. It was published in the United States in October 2003 and has since been published in Italy as well. Film rights were sold to Miramax Films (The English Patient, Cold Mountain etc). In January 2004, his first novel, The Burning Blue, set to a backdrop of the Battle of Britain, was published by William Heinemann. In May 2005, his second work of history, Together We Stand: North Africa 1942-1943, Turning the Tide in the West, was published by HarperCollins, and was published in the United States by Miramax Books in February 2006. His second novel, A Pair of Silver Wings, was published in March 2006. In August 2007, he published Heroes: The Greatest Generation and the Second World War. In March 2008, he published a major new work on the Italian Campaign, Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945, which has since been published in the United States and which has also been translated into four other languages.