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Mark Felton (born 1974) is a British author and historian of the Second World War.[1]

Early life and education[]

Felton was born in Colchester, Essex on 13 May 1974 and educated at the 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.[8]

Felton has appeared on television as a military history expert, including in the series Combat Trains (The History Channel),[9] Top Tens of Warfare (Quest TV),[10] and Evolution of Evil (American Heroes Channel).[11] His book Zero Night, about an escape from a German prison camp, received much critical attention,[12][13][14] and was the subject of the BBC Radio documentary Three Minutes of Mayhem.[15] Zero Night has been optioned to Essential Media for feature film development.[16][17][18] In 2016, Felton's book, Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz, which concerns the escape of British generals from Vincigliata Castle near Florence in 1943, was optioned for feature film development by Entertainment One.[19]

Personal life[]

Mark Felton lives in Norwich with his wife and son.[20]

Bibliography[]

  • Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade between Germany and Japan 1942–1945 (Pen & Sword: 2005)[21]
  • The Fujita Plan: Japanese Attacks on the United States and Australia during the Second World War (Pen & Sword: 2006)[22]
  • Slaughter at Sea: Japan’s Naval War Crimes (Pen & Sword, 2007)[23]
  • 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)[24][25][26]
  • Today is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West (The History Press, 2009)[27]
  • The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese (Pen & Sword: 2009)[28]
  • The Final Betrayal: Mountbatten, MacArthur and the Tragedy of Japanese POWs (Pen & Sword: 2010)[29]
  • 21st Century Courage: Stirring Stories of Modern British Heroes (Pen & Sword, 2010)[30]
  • Children of the Camps: Japan’s Last Forgotten Victims (Pen & Sword: 2011)[31]
  • The Last Nazis: The Hunt for Hitler’s Henchmen (Pen & Sword: 2011)[32]
  • The Devil’s Doctors: Japanese Human Experiments on Allied Prisoners-of-War (Pen & Sword: 2012)[33]
  • Never Surrender: Dramatic Escapes from Japanese Prison Camps (Pen & Sword: 2013)[34]
  • China Station: The British Military in the Middle Kingdom 1839–1997 (Pen & Sword: 2013)[35]
  • Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Fuhrer (Pen & Sword: 2014)[36]
  • Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Most Daring Great Escape (Icon Books: 2014)[37][38][39]
  • The Sea Devils: Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two (Icon Books: 2015)[40][41][42]
  • Holocaust Heroes: Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution (Pen & Sword: 2016)[43]
  • Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Icon Books: 2017)[44]
  • Ghost Riders: When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to Save the World's Most Famous Horses in the Last Desperate Days of World War II, (Da Capo: 2018)[45]
  • Chapter 8: The Perfect Storm: Japanese Military Brutality in World War II, Routledge History of Genocide, Ed. C. Carmichael & R. Maguire, (Routledge, 2015)[46]

References[]

  1. ↑ "Andrew Lownie Literary Agency :: Authors :: Mark Felton". andrewlownie.co.uk. http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/authors/mark-felton. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  2. ↑ "Silver screen comes calling for Colchester author". Gazette. http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/12873324.Silver_screen_comes_calling_for_Colchester_author/. Retrieved 15 May 2016. 
  3. ↑ "Resistance in exile: Sitting Bull and the Hunkpapa Sioux in Canada, 1877–81.". history.ac.uk. http://www.history.ac.uk/history-online/theses/thesis/resistance-exile-sitting-bull-and-hunkpapa-sioux-canada-1877-81. Retrieved 15 May 2016. 
  4. ↑ "Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal Shanghai 2013 launches". That's Online. http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/post/1759/royal-british-legion-poppy-appeal-shanghai-2013-launches. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  5. ↑ "Lost graves of four Ulster heroes who fell in China found". BelfastTelegraph.co.uk. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/lost-graves-of-four-ulster-heroes-who-fell-in-china-found-29834729.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  6. ↑ "HMS Daring – British Graves found in Shanghai". www.gov.uk. https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/hms-daring-british-graves-found-in-shanghai. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  7. ↑ "British soldiers' graves honoured in Shanghai cemetery". BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-25345742. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  8. ↑ Andrew Lownie Literary Agency: Mark Felton
  9. ↑ "Combat Trains". RadioTimes. http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/dvrc4p/combat-trains--s1-e1-nazi-railways. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  10. ↑ "Quest TV". Quest TV. http://www.questtv.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  11. ↑ "Tojo Fuels the Fire of Hatred and Savagery". American Heroes Channel. http://www.ahctv.com/tojo-fuels-the-fire-of-hatred-and-savagery/. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  12. ↑ Schneider, Edward (28 August 2015). "An Over-the-Top Escape Plan". https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-over-the-top-escape-plan-1440792195. Retrieved 26 April 2016. 
  13. ↑ "El piloto británico sin piernas que causaba pavor a los cazas nazis" (in es). 7 April 2015. http://www.abc.es/cultura/20150407/abci-piloto-piernas-nazi-britanico-201504071236.html. Retrieved 26 April 2016. 
  14. ↑ Bandyopadhyay, Somshankar (23 September 2015). "Zero Night review: Flight to freedom". http://gulfnews.com/culture/books/zero-night-review-flight-to-freedom-1.1588871. Retrieved 26 April 2016. 
  15. ↑ "BBC Radio Cambridgeshire – BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Special, Three Minutes Of Mayhem". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02qvg3d. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  16. ↑ "Douglas Bader's great escape from the Nazis to be made into a movie – Daily Mail Online". Mail Online. 6 April 2015. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3028046/Douglas-Bader-s-great-escape-Nazis-movie.html. Retrieved 15 May 2016. 
  17. ↑ "Nocookies". The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/hollywood-to-tell-tale-of-annbspeven-greater-escape-by-allied-pows/news-story/a7b2a93cc190650e4dc94dd88a0c5227. Retrieved 15 May 2016. 
  18. ↑ "Silver screen comes calling for Colchester author". Gazette. http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/12873324.Silver_screen_comes_calling_for_Colchester_author/?ref=rss. Retrieved 15 May 2016. 
  19. ↑ Author is 'bowled over' by a second Hollywood deal, East Anglian Daily Times, 28 October 2016
  20. ↑ City author's history books transfer to the big screen, Norwich Evening News, 4 November 2016
  21. ↑ "Nazi U-Boat Imperils Norwegians Decades After the War". The New York Times. 11 January 2007. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/world/europe/11norway.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  22. ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: The Fujita Plan – Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Fujita-Plan-Hardback/p/1303. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  23. ↑ "Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood". Mail Online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-491548/Alive-safe-brutal-Japanese-soldiers-butchered-20-000-Allied-seamen-cold-blood.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  24. ↑ "Stephen Mansfield: Best books of 2009". The Japan Times. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2009/12/20/books/book-reviews/stephen-mansfield-best-books-of-2009/. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  25. ↑ Nigel Blundell. "Demons of depravity: the Japanese Gestapo". Express.co.uk. http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/117740/Demons-of-depravity-the-Japanese-Gestapo. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  26. ↑ "WAR ZONE – City of Terror: the Japanese takeover of Shanghai". Military History Monthly. http://www.military-history.org/articles/war-zone-city-of-terror-the-japanese-takeover-of-shanghai.htm. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  27. ↑ "The History Press – Today is a Good Day to Fight". thehistorypress.co.uk. http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/Today-is-a-Good-Day-to-Fight/9780752449012/. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  28. ↑ "The Real Tenko, Mark Felton". historyofwar.org. http://www.historyofwar.org/bookpage/felton_real_tenko.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  29. ↑ "Vol. 75 No. 3 – The Society for Military History". smh-hq.org. http://www.smh-hq.org/jmh/jmhvols/753.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  30. ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: 21st Century Courage – Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/21st-Century-Courage-Hardback/p/2589. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  31. ↑ "COFEPOW – Books". cofepow.org.uk. http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/books.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  32. ↑ "The Last Nazis: The Hunt for Hitler's Henchmen: Amazon.co.uk: Mark Felton: 9781848842861: Books". amazon.co.uk. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Nazis-Hunt-Hitlers-Henchmen/dp/1848842864/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461679375&sr=8-1&keywords=the+last+nazis+felton. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  33. ↑ "Secret Science". google.co.uk. https://books.google.com/books?id=K9qmCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA591&lpg=PA591&dq=the+devil's+doctors+felton+review&source=bl&ots=5bt5YzllNF&sig=1h2PqdC177fEDVqAK_lfAj0TdXA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD4_78yMrMAhVLJsAKHXndCK44ChDoAQgpMAI#v=onepage&q=the%20devil's%20doctors%20felton%20review&f=false. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  34. ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: Never Surrender – Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Never-Surrender-Hardback/p/4017. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  35. ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: China Station – Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/China-Station-Hardback/p/4116. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  36. ↑ "Guarding Hitler – Review by Phil Hodges". WAR HISTORY ONLINE. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/reviews/guarding-hitler-review-phil-hodges.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  37. ↑ "Allied PoWs escaped Nazi camp using ladders they disguised as shelves". Mail Online. 2 November 2014. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817692/Allied-PoWs-escaped-Nazi-camp-using-ladders-disguised-shelves.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  38. ↑ Richard Smith (31 October 2014). "The crate escape: British prisoners of war climbed out of Nazi camp on ladders disguised as bookshelves". mirror. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/crate-escape-british-prisoners-war-4545882. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  39. ↑ "Kiwis' over-the-top World War II great escape immortalised". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11368403. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  40. ↑ "Short reviews of non-fiction from Australia and overseas". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/short-reviews-of-nonfiction-from-australia-and-overseas-20150906-gjf555.html. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  41. ↑ "Maritme Books". submarinersassociation.co.uk. https://www.submarinersassociation.co.uk/Pages/LinksPages/maritime-books.htm. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  42. ↑ Will Lodge. "Colchester author noticed by Hollywood releases new book". East Anglian Daily Times. http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/colchester_author_noticed_by_hollywood_releases_new_book_1_4210983. Retrieved 9 May 2016. 
  43. ↑ "Pen and Sword Books: Holocaust Heroes – Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Holocaust-Heroes-Hardback/p/12096. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  44. ↑ "Icon Books  » Castle of the Eagles". iconbooks.com. http://www.iconbooks.com/blog/title/castle-of-the-eagles/. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
  45. ↑ Norwich writer nabs second Hollywood adaptation deal, Norwich Evening News, 3 November 2016
  46. ↑ "Routledge Handbooks Online". routledgehandbooks.com. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315719054.ch8. Retrieved 6 May 2016. 
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