Mark Felton

Mark Felton (born 1974) is a British YouTuber, author, and historian of the Second World War. He has written over 20 books and nearly 400 history shorts on YouTube. While his main focus is on World War II, he also produces works on the Cold War, and other military-related events of the 20th century.

Mark Felton
Born1974
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

Early life and education

Felton was born in Colchester, Essex and received his education at the Philip Morant School.[1] After completing a bachelor's degree and an MA, Felton earned a PhD in history from the University of Essex in 2005.[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),[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 highlighted to Essential Media for feature film development.[16][17]

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.[18] In 2017 Felton started his own YouTube channel, Mark Felton Productions, which explores numerous historic subjects.[19] By January 2021 his channel had exceeded one million subscribers.[20][19] On November 26, 2019, Felton created a second channel by the name of War Stories with Mark Felton, on which he posts recordings of himself reading various books that he has written, usually in parts. By January 2021 this channel had accumulated 138,000 subscribers. [20]

Personal life

Felton lives in Norwich with his wife and son.[21]

Bibliography
  • Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade between Germany and Japan 1942–1945 (Pen & Sword: 2005)[22]
  • The Fujita Plan: Japanese Attacks on the United States and Australia during the Second World War (Pen & Sword: 2006)[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]
  • The Sea Devils: Operation Struggle and the Last Great Raid of World War Two (Icon Books: 2015)[39][40][41]
  • Holocaust Heroes: Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution (Pen & Sword: 2016)[42]
  • Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz (Icon Books: 2017)[43]
  • 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)[44]
  • Operation Swallow: American Soldiers Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp (Center Street: 2019)[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. "Silver screen comes calling for Colchester author". Gazette. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  2. "Resistance in exile: Sitting Bull and the Hunkpapa Sioux in Canada, 1877–81". history.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  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.
  10. "Quest TV". Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  11. "Tojo Fuels the Fire of Hatred and Savagery". American Heroes Channel. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  12. Schneider, Edward (28 August 2015). "An Over-the-Top Escape Plan". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  13. "El piloto británico sin piernas que causaba pavor a los cazas nazis". ABC (in Spanish). 7 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  14. Bandyopadhyay, Somshankar (23 September 2015). "Zero Night review: Flight to freedom". Gulf News. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  15. "BBC Radio Cambridgeshire – BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Special, Three Minutes Of Mayhem". BBC. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  16. "Nocookies". The Australian. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  17. "Silver screen comes calling for Colchester author". Gazette. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  18. Author is 'bowled over' by a second Hollywood deal, East Anglian Daily Times, 28 October 2016
  19. Mark Felton Productions's channel on YouTube
  20. "War Stories with Mark Felton - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  21. City author's history books transfer to the big screen, Norwich Evening News, 4 November 2016
  22. "Nazi U-Boat Imperils Norwegians Decades After the War". The New York Times. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  23. Felton, Mark (August 2007). Pen and Sword Books: The Fujita Plan – Hardback. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781844154807. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  24. "Stephen Mansfield: Best books of 2009". The Japan Times. 2009-12-20. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  25. Nigel Blundell (2009-08-02). "Demons of depravity: the Japanese Gestapo". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  26. "War Zone – City of Terror: the Japanese takeover of Shanghai". Military History Monthly. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  27. "The History Press – Today is a Good Day to Fight". thehistorypress.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  28. "The Real Tenko, Mark Felton". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  29. "Vol. 75 No. 3 – The Society for Military History". smh-hq.org. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  30. Felton, Mark (2010-11-29). Pen and Sword Books: 21st Century Courage – Hardback. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781848840737. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  31. "Cofepow – Books". cofepow.org.uk. Archived from the original on 9 June 2002. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  32. The Last Nazis: The Hunt for Hitler's Henchmen: Amazon.co.uk: Mark Felton: 9781848842861: Books. ASIN 1848842864.
  33. Schmidt, Ulf (2015-07-09). Secret Science. ISBN 9780191062971. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  34. Felton, Mark (2013-06-05). Pen and Sword Books: Never Surrender – Hardback. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781781590225. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  35. "Pen and Sword Books: China Station – Hardback". Pen and Sword Books. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  36. "Guarding Hitler – Review by Phil Hodges". War History Online. October 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  37. 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.
  38. "Kiwis' over-the-top World War II great escape immortalised". The New Zealand Herald. 2014-12-03. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  39. "Short reviews of non-fiction from Australia and overseas". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2015-09-06. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  40. "Maritime Books". submarinersassociation.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  41. Will Lodge. "Colchester author noticed by Hollywood releases new book". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  42. Pen and Sword Books: Holocaust Heroes – Hardback. Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781783400577. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  43. "Icon Books » Castle of the Eagles". iconbooks.com. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
  44. Norwich writer nabs second Hollywood adaptation deal, Norwich Evening News, 3 November 2016
  45. "Operation Swallow". March 5, 2019 – via www.centerstreet.com.
  46. Carmichael, Cathie (2015). The Routledge History of Genocide. doi:10.4324/9781315719054. ISBN 9781315719054.
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