Phil Carradice
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Phil Carradice (born 1947), is a Welsh writer and broadcaster.[http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/129551/ Literature Wales:Writers of Wales]. Retrieved 14 April 2013
Carradice was born in Pembroke Dock. He was educated at Cardiff College of Education and Cardiff University, and became a teacher and social worker. After several years as head of Headlands Special School in Penarth, near Cardiff, he retired from the teaching profession to become a full-time writer. He hosts a history series on BBC Radio Wales entitled The Past Master.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007njfj/episodes/guide BBC Radio Wales - Past Master]. Retrieved 6 January 2014
Carradice is a prolific public speaker and travels extensively in the course of his work.Siegfried's Journal, vol 25 (2014), p 1[http://www.battle-honours.eu/group-tours-somme-ypres-gallipoli-battlefields/tour14-wfa-poets/ Western Front Association Poets Tour 2014]. Retrieved 14 June 2014[http://www.dinefwrliteraturefestival.co.uk/phil-carradice Dinefwr Literature Festival 2014]. Retrieved 14 June 2014
Works
=Fiction=
- Hour of the Wolf (1985)
=Children's=
- The Bosun's Secret (2000)
- The Pirates of Thorn Island (2001)
- Hannah Goes to War (2005)
- Black Bart's Treasure (2007)
- The Wild West Story (2013)[http://www.pontbooks.co.uk/coming-soon/ Pont Books:Coming Soon] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141130211131/http://www.pontbooks.co.uk/coming-soon/ |date=30 November 2014 }}. Retrieved 13 April 2013
=Non-fiction=
- Failures of System (1976)
- The Last Invasion (1992)
- The Write Way (1996)
- Welsh Islands (1997)
- Shooting the Sacred Cows (1998)
- Exploring the Pembrokeshire Coast (2002)
- Wales at War (2005)
- Coming Home: Wales After the War (2005)
- A Town Built to Build Ships - A History of Pembroke Dock (2006)
- Life Choices (2006)
- People’s Poetry of the Great War (Cecil Woolf, 2007)
- The Black Chair (2008)
- People’s Poetry of World War Two (Cecil Woolf, 2009)
- The First World War in the Air (Amberley, 2012)
- 1914:the First World War at Sea in Photographs (Amberley, 2014)
- The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands: British Naval Campaigns in the Southern Hemisphere 1914-19 (Fonthill, 2014)
- The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days on an Atomic Knife Edge, October 1962 (Pen & Sword Books, 2018)
=Poetry=
- Cautionary Tale (1998)
- Ghostly Riders (2002)
References
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Sources
- [http://www.benybont.co.uk/guests/morgest/morgest.htm Brief biography]
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