: About Me

Mark was born in Warwickshire but currently lives in Devon in the beautiful south west of England. In this incarnation he has an Honours Degree in Ancient and Medieval History from Birmingham University (UK) and 30 years teaching experience.

From his youth, he  has been a bit unconventional. He tends to go his own way and tries not to look back. Walking into a lamp-post can be SO embarrassing!

He enjoys the right company but is often happiest on his own.

He has a dry sense of humor; some days it evaporates entirely.

Mark has  decided to add a little bit about what he looks like, in the absence of a photo. He does not have the software or the expertise to download a photo, which  must strike some people as almost akin to an admission of imbecility. He pre-dates the computer era! (and  knows that's no excuse really, but it's true and it's the best he can come up with!

So...............

I am 6 foot 2 inches tall, 172 pounds, slim and quite athletic, brown hair, brown eyes, clean shaven, and still have a full head of hair, with some silver highlights often mistaken for graying! Despite being British, I still have my teeth too!

Personally, he does not think any of this makes any difference to his articles!

(Mark Hopkins is a 'nom de plume'.)

My passion is ...

The natural world

I know too much about ...

Lefthandedness

My parents always told me ...

Tell the truth

My childhood ambition ...

To be taller than my older brother (success)

My favorite memory ...

Watching deer in the moonlight

Why I write ...

I enjoy it

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

T S Eliot 'Ash Wednesday' Fairport Convention

My first job ...

Hoeing a 10 acre cabbage field

My best moment ...

Yet to come, I hope

My inspiration ...

The turning of the seasons

Arts & Humanities > The World Wars World War II: An overview on The Battle of the North Atlantic

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The 'Battle of the Atlantic', a phrase first coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on March 6th 1941, was the struggle to keep open the supply routes upon which Great Britain depended for her survival. Fighting on alone against Nazi Germany after the Fall of France, Britain needed to import huge quantities of raw materials and fuel to sustain the war effort, as well as commodities such as food to feed her people. Much of it came from North America. The Germans knew full well that if they could cut off her supplies they could starve Britain out of the war. At the...

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