Diane Allen interviewed for the Telegraph

Joe Shute, reporter for The Telegraph, writes: On a September morning in 1983, Diane Allen reported for duty at Sandhurst. At 18, she was the second youngest member of the first group of women ever accepted into the elite officer training academy. A male commandant delivered an opening address to the 38 raw recruits, their…

Diane Allen interviewed by Sky News

Deborah Haynes, Foreign Affairs Editor at Sky News, interviewed Diane Allen about the imminent release of her book, ‘Forewarned‘. Diane was one of the first women at Sandhurst. Sandhurst was so unprepared there were no boots small enough for women and no beds for them (a recurrent theme). She served in Northern Ireland and Germany in…