Mark Felton
Mark Felton (born 1974) is a British World War II author and historian.[1]
Early life and education
Felton was educated at Philip Morant School, Colchester.[2] After completing an undergraduate degree and an MA, Felton gained a PhD in history from the University of Essex in 2005.[3]
Career
Felton lectured in Shanghai, China between 2005 and 2014, latterly at Fudan University. He also worked as a volunteer for the Royal British Legion, organising the annual Poppy Appeal in Eastern China, 2010-2014.[4] He assisted the British Consulate Shanghai in the rediscovery of the graves of four British soldiers killed by the Japanese in 1937 following a request from Prime Minister David Cameron,[5][6][7] and was awarded a Royal British Legion Certificate of Appreciation.[1]
Felton has appeared on television as a military history expert, including the series Combat Trains (The History Channel),[8] Top Tens of Warfare (Quest TV),[9] and Evolution of Evil.(American Heroes Channel)[10] His book Zero Night, about an escape from a German prison camp, has won much critical attention,[11][12][13] and was the subject of the BBC Radio documentary Three Minutes of Mayhem.[14] Zero Night has been optioned to Essential Media for feature film development.[15][16][17]
Personal life
Felton lives in Colchester with his wife and son.
Bibliography
- Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade between Germany and Japan 1942-1945 (Pen & Sword: 2005)[18]
- The Fujita Plan: Japanese Attacks on the United States and Australia during the Second World War (Pen & Sword: 2006)[19]
- Slaughter at Sea: Japan’s Naval War Crimes (Pen & Sword, 2007)[20]
- The Coolie Generals: Britain's Far Eastern Military Leaders in Japanese Captivity (Pen & Sword: 2008)
- Japan’s Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem & Torture in Wartime Asia (Pen & Sword, 2009)[21][22][23]
- Today is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West (The History Press, 2009)[24]
- The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese (Pen & Sword: 2009)[25]
- The Final Betrayal: Mountbatten, MacArthur and the Tragedy of Japanese POWs (Pen & Sword: 2010)[26]
- 21st Century Courage: Stirring Stories of Modern British Heroes (Pen & Sword, 2010)[27]
- Children of the Camps: Japan’s Last Forgotten Victims (Pen & Sword: 2011)[28]
- The Last Nazis: The Hunt for Hitler’s Henchmen (Pen & Sword: 2011)[29]
- The Devil’s Doctors: Japanese Human Experiments on Allied Prisoners-of-War (Pen & Sword: 2012)[30]
- Never Surrender: Dramatic Escapes from Japanese Prison Camps (Pen & Sword: 2013)[31]
- China Station: The British Military in the Middle Kingdom 1839-1997 (Pen & Sword: 2013)[32]
- Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Fuhrer (Pen & Sword: 2014)[33]
- Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Most Daring Great Escape (Icon Books: 2014)[34][35][36]
- The Sea Devils: Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two (Icon Books: 2015)[37][38][39]
- Holocaust Heroes: Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution (Pen & Sword: 2016)[40]
- Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Icon Books: 2017)[41]
- Chapter 8: The Perfect Storm: Japanese Military Brutality in World War II, Routledge History of Genocide, Ed. C. Carmichael & R. Maguire, (Routledge, 2015)[42]
References
- 1 2 "Andrew Lownie Literary Agency :: Authors :: Mark Felton". andrewlownie.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Silver screen comes calling for Colchester author". Gazette. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ↑ "Resistance in exile: Sitting Bull and the Hunkpapa Sioux in Canada, 1877-81.". history.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ↑ "Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal Shanghai 2013 launches". That's Online. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Lost graves of four Ulster heroes who fell in China found". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "HMS Daring - British Graves found in Shanghai". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "British soldiers' graves honoured in Shanghai cemetery". BBC News. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Combat Trains". RadioTimes. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Quest TV". Quest TV. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Tojo Fuels the Fire of Hatred and Savagery". American Heroes Channel. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ Schneider, Edward (28 August 2015). "An Over-the-Top Escape Plan". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ↑ "El piloto británico sin piernas que causaba pavor a los cazas nazis". ABC (in Spanish). 7 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ↑ Bandyopadhyay, Somshankar (23 September 2015). "Zero Night review: Flight to freedom". Gulf News. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ↑ "BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Special, Three Minutes Of Mayhem". BBC. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Douglas Bader's great escape from the Nazis to be made into a movie - Daily Mail Online". Mail Online. 6 April 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ↑ "Nocookies". The Australian. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ↑ "Silver screen comes calling for Colchester author". Gazette. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ↑ "Nazi U-Boat Imperils Norwegians Decades After the War". The New York Times. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: The Fujita Plan - Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood". Mail Online. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Stephen Mansfield: Best books of 2009". The Japan Times. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ Nigel Blundell. "Demons of depravity: the Japanese Gestapo". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "WAR ZONE – City of Terror: the Japanese takeover of Shanghai". Military History Monthly. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "The History Press - Today is a Good Day to Fight". thehistorypress.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "The Real Tenko, Mark Felton". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Vol. 75 No. 3 - The Society for Military History". smh-hq.org. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: 21st Century Courage - Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "COFEPOW - Books". cofepow.org.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "The Last Nazis: The Hunt for Hitler's Henchmen: Amazon.co.uk: Mark Felton: 9781848842861: Books". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Secret Science". google.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: Never Surrender - Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: China Station - Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Guarding Hitler - Review by Phil Hodges". WAR HISTORY ONLINE. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Allied PoWs escaped Nazi camp using ladders they disguised as shelves". Mail Online. 2 November 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ Richard Smith (31 October 2014). "The crate escape: British prisoners of war climbed out of Nazi camp on ladders disguised as bookshelves". mirror. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Kiwis' over-the-top World War II great escape immortalised". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Short reviews of non-fiction from Australia and overseas". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Maritme Books". submarinersassociation.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ Will Lodge. "Colchester author noticed by Hollywood releases new book". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: Holocaust Heroes - Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Icon Books » Castle of the Eagles". iconbooks.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Routledge Handbooks Online". routledgehandbooks.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
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