Mark Felton

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Mark Felton
Born1974 (age 46–47)
Colchester, Essex, England
Education
OccupationAuthor, historian and YouTuber
Years active2005–present
OrganizationRoyal British Legion (2010–2014)
Notable work
Zero Night
Television
  • Combat Trains
  • Top Tens of Warfare
  • Evolution of Evil
AwardsRoyal British Legion Certificate of Appreciation
Websitemarkfelton.co.uk

Mark Felton (born 1974) is a British historian of the Second World War. He has written more than 20 books and posts history shorts on YouTube.

Early life and education[]

Felton was born in Colchester, Essex, and received his education at the Philip Morant School.[1] Felton sat for a BA in history with English at Anglia Polytechnic University, holds a postgraduate certificate in political science, an MA in Native American studies, and a PhD in history, all at the University of Essex.[2]

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.[3] Following a request from Prime Minister David Cameron, he assisted the British Consulate Shanghai in the rediscovery of the graves of four British soldiers killed by the Japanese in 1937,[4][5][6] and was awarded a Royal British Legion Certificate of Appreciation.[7][8]

Felton has appeared on television as a military history expert, including in the series Combat Trains (The History Channel), Top Tens of Warfare (Quest TV), and Evolution of Evil (American Heroes Channel).[9][10] His book Zero Night, about an escape from a German prison camp, received much critical attention,[11][12][13] and was the subject of the BBC Radio documentary Three Minutes of Mayhem.[14] Zero Night has been highlighted to Essential Media for feature film development.[15][1]

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 identified for feature film development by Entertainment One.[16] In 2017, Felton started his first YouTube channel, Mark Felton Productions, which explores historic subjects.[17][non-primary source needed] By January 2021, his channel exceeded one million subscribers, growing to 1.41 million by August 2021.[17] On November 26, 2019, Felton created a second channel, War Stories with Mark Felton, on which he posts recordings of himself reading various books that he has written, usually in parts. By August 2021, his second channel had accumulated over 213,000 subscribers.[18]

Personal life[]

Felton lives in Norwich with his wife and son.[19] He is an associate companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Bibliography[]

  • Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade between Germany and Japan 1942–1945 (Pen & Sword: 2005)[20]
  • The Fujita Plan: Japanese Attacks on the United States and Australia during the Second World War (Pen & Sword: 2006)[21]
  • 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)[22][23][24]
  • Today is a Good Day to Fight: The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West (The History Press, 2009)[25]
  • The Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese (Pen & Sword: 2009)[26]
  • The Final Betrayal: Mountbatten, MacArthur and the Tragedy of Japanese POWs (Pen & Sword: 2010)[27]
  • 21st Century Courage: Stirring Stories of Modern British Heroes (Pen & Sword, 2010)[28]
  • Children of the Camps: Japan's Last Forgotten Victims (Pen & Sword: 2011)[29]
  • The Last Nazis: The Hunt for Hitler's Henchmen (Pen & Sword: 2011)[30]
  • The Devil's Doctors: Japanese Human Experiments on Allied Prisoners-of-War (Pen & Sword: 2012)[31]
  • Never Surrender: Dramatic Escapes from Japanese Prison Camps (Pen & Sword: 2013)[32]
  • China Station: The British Military in the Middle Kingdom 1839–1997 (Pen & Sword: 2013)[33]
  • Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Fuhrer (Pen & Sword: 2014)[34]
  • Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Most Daring Great Escape (Icon Books: 2014)[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]
  • 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)[42]
  • Operation Swallow: American Soldiers Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp (Center Street: 2019)[43]
  • Chapter 8: The Perfect Storm: Japanese Military Brutality in World War II, Routledge History of Genocide, Ed. C. Carmichael & R. Maguire, (Routledge, 2015)[44]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Silver screen comes calling for Colchester author". Gazette. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Dr Mark Felton: Biography". Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  3. ^ "Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal Shanghai 2013 launches". That's Online. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Lost graves of four Ulster heroes who fell in China found". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  5. ^ "HMS Daring – British Graves found in Shanghai". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  6. ^ "British soldiers' graves honoured in Shanghai cemetery". BBC News. 2013-12-12. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Mark Felton - Writer". LinkedIn. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  8. ^ "Mark Felton". Andrew Lownie Literary Agency. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  9. ^ "Combat Trains". RadioTimes. Retrieved 6 May 2016.[dead link]
  10. ^ "Tojo Fuels the Fire of Hatred and Savagery". American Heroes Channel. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  11. ^ Schneider, Edward (28 August 2015). "An Over-the-Top Escape Plan". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  12. ^ "El piloto británico sin piernas que causaba pavor a los cazas nazis". ABC (in Spanish). 7 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  13. ^ Bandyopadhyay, Somshankar (23 September 2015). "Zero Night review: Flight to freedom". Gulf News. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  14. ^ "BBC Radio Cambridgeshire – BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Special, Three Minutes Of Mayhem". BBC. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  15. ^ "Nocookies". The Australian. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  16. ^ Author is 'bowled over' by a second Hollywood deal, East Anglian Daily Times, 28 October 2016
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b Mark Felton Productions's channel on YouTube
  18. ^ "War Stories with Mark Felton - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  19. ^ City author's history books transfer to the big screen, Norwich Evening News, 4 November 2016
  20. ^ "Nazi U-Boat Imperils Norwegians Decades After the War". The New York Times. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  21. ^ Felton, Mark (August 2007). Pen and Sword Books: The Fujita Plan – Hardback. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781844154807. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  22. ^ "Stephen Mansfield: Best books of 2009". The Japan Times. 2009-12-20. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  23. ^ Nigel Blundell (2009-08-02). "Demons of depravity: the Japanese Gestapo". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  24. ^ "War Zone – City of Terror: the Japanese takeover of Shanghai". Military History Monthly. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  25. ^ "The History Press – Today is a Good Day to Fight". thehistorypress.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  26. ^ "The Real Tenko, Mark Felton". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  27. ^ "Vol. 75 No. 3 – The Society for Military History". smh-hq.org. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  28. ^ Felton, Mark (2010-11-29). Pen and Sword Books: 21st Century Courage – Hardback. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781848840737. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  29. ^ "Cofepow – Books". cofepow.org.uk. Archived from the original on 9 June 2002. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  30. ^ The Last Nazis: The Hunt for Hitler's Henchmen: Amazon.co.uk: Mark Felton: 9781848842861: Books. ASIN 1848842864.
  31. ^ Schmidt, Ulf (2015-07-09). Secret Science. ISBN 9780191062971. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  32. ^ Felton, Mark (2013-06-05). Pen and Sword Books: Never Surrender – Hardback. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781781590225. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  33. ^ "Pen and Sword Books: China Station – Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  34. ^ "Guarding Hitler – Review by Phil Hodges". War History Online. October 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  35. ^ 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.
  36. ^ "Kiwis' over-the-top World War II great escape immortalised". The New Zealand Herald. 2014-12-03. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  37. ^ "Short reviews of non-fiction from Australia and overseas". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2015-09-06. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  38. ^ "Maritime Books". submarinersassociation.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  39. ^ Will Lodge. "Colchester author noticed by Hollywood releases new book". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  40. ^ Pen and Sword Books: Holocaust Heroes – Hardback. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781783400577. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  41. ^ "Icon Books » Castle of the Eagles". iconbooks.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  42. ^ Norwich writer nabs second Hollywood adaptation deal, Norwich Evening News, 3 November 2016
  43. ^ "Operation Swallow". March 5, 2019 – via www.centerstreet.com.
  44. ^ Carmichael, Cathie (2015). The Routledge History of Genocide. doi:10.4324/9781315719054. ISBN 9781315719054.

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