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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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It’s very disappointing World Book Day couldn’t be arranged to coincide with the publication of my new book. It’s NEXT Thursday everybody! Filled with real life heroes: courageous UK, US, and Canadian airmen; amazing men and women of the Resistance and evasion lines; and SOE saboteurs. And, an horrific traitor. Pretty much worse than anyone…
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Just over a week after the end of the war in Europe a car driven by a German soldier who had worked at Flossenbürg concentration camp was involved in a car accident. In the other vehicle was a Welsh-born officer named Major Jacques de Guélis. A highly-decorated war hero, de Guélis had served behind the…
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Preorder UK edition here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-nazi-ghost-train/greg-lewis/9781917439695
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The wonderful Jeanne Moreau would have been 98 today. Here is the late Norman Eshley (in what turned out to be his last full interview) talking about the pleasure of working with Moreau and Orson Welles in ‘The Immortal Story’. ‘My first day was to get into bed with Jeanne Moreau. And the day before,…
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