Book cover for A Strange Campaign: The Battle For Madagascar by Russell Phillips. There is a photograph of British troops going ashore from a landing craft, overlaid with a Union Jack. There is another photo of French prisoners of war escorted by British troops, overlaid with a French Tricolore.

A Strange Campaign available for pre-order

Posted on 8th September 202019th October 2020 by Russell Phillips

On 5th May next year my next book, A Strange Campaign: The Battle for Madagascar, will be published. This coincides with the anniversary of Operation Ironclad, which marked the start of the campaign. ... Read More

Operation Nimrod available for pre-order

Posted on 13th July 201513th July 2015 by Russell Phillips

I’m very happy to announce that Operation Nimrod will be available in October. This is an account of the 1980 Iranian embassy siege, when six terrorists held twenty-six hostages at the Iranian e... Read More

A Damn Close-Run Thing: Now Available As An Audio Book

Posted on 12th May 20144th December 2014 by Russell Phillips

I’m very pleased to announce that A Damn Close-Run Thing: A Brief History of the Falklands Conflict is now available as an audio book at Audible, Amazon and iTunes. It is read by the very talent... Read More

Russell Phillips

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A Strange Campaign available for pre-order

Operation Nimrod available for pre-order

A Damn Close-Run Thing: Now Available As An Audio Book