Philip Burton: 4 books

"...interested in words ... a sure sense of rhythm ... striking images" - Copland Smith"...he's got serious things to say" - Derrick Buttress"... a deft observer ... conveys felt emotion with no little skill" - Michael W. Thomas" ... poems sizzle and rasp ... not derivative but immediate and deeply felt ... deserves a wider audience!" - Barry Tebb

In 1943, aged 18, Philip Brutton relinquished his place at Cambridge to volunteer for the Welsh Guards. He was commissioned the same year and was Ensign of the Guard as St James's Palace when a near miss by the Luftwaffe hit and badly damaged the surrounding area. At 19, in early 1944, he was sent...

The Battle of Naseby was the decisive engagement of the English Civil War and the battlefield is the first to have been radically reinterpreted in the light of metal detector research. This guide, co-authored by the principal authorities on the battle, links contemporary accounts to their findings...

Salvage logging—removing trees from a forested area in the wake of a catastrophic evsuch as a wildfire or hurricane—is highly controversial. Policymakers and those with an economic interest in harvesting trees typically argue that damaged areas should be logged so as to avoid “wasting” resources,...