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At 8.30am on July 7, 1916, the 38th (Welsh) Division began its attack on Mametz Wood. The capture of the wood was key to a successful attack on the German second line in this area of the Somme battlefield. The first advance floundered in chaos 200-300 yards short of the wood, and a further attack…
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Celebrating US pilot Al Sanders, a survivor of betrayal in occupied Europe.
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The airmen thought their war was over. But it had just begun. Courage, betrayal, evasion, escape in The Nazi Ghost Train.
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I got scammed. But not in the way you may think. Be careful out there.
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There is still a place for non-fiction. Still a place for true war stories. Still a place to celebrate the lives of heroes. The airmen, the men and women of the courageous evasion lines, the SOE and the armed resistance.
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‘The Nazi Ghost Train’ is in the top 5 of these THREE Amazon charts that include brilliant authors such as Antony Beevor, Damien Lewis, the wonderful Colin Bell DFC, and Andrew Lownie.
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Writing a book can be a long and lonely journey. My latest began many years ago while sitting in my friend John’s house. I’d always been fascinated by the Resistance and evasion line heroes who had helped him and many others. I trace my interest back to the great BBC series ‘Secret Army’, and many…
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When RAF airman and evader John Evans told me that one of his helpers had been saved on the ‘Ghost Train’ he set me off on the trail of a fascinating story. I finished writing John’s story and began to read and research about this new one. This presented a new set of challenges. There…
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This is the man who first roused my interest in the story that would become my new book, ‘The Nazi Ghost Train’. His name was John Evans, and he was a wonderfully kind and brave man with a remarkable story of his own. A Halifax bomber pilot, he was shot down in May 1944 over…
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