Books

  • ‘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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  • The American airmen who flew bombing missions from Britain are once again in my thoughts, as I’ve been researching the courage of many of them for my new book ‘The Nazi Ghost Train’. People like John ‘Bud’ Brown and Ted Kleinman, shot down in February 1944, and forced to embark on a seven-month ordeal which…

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  • Here is the UK cover of ‘The Nazi Ghost Train‘ which comes out next year. I love it! Thank you, Mirror Books. It’s an amazing true story of an act of resistance which saved the lives of hundreds of resisters, airmen and SOE agents. More about the book here.

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  • World War Two was the war in which old gender rules changed, as intelligence agencies created specific training and roles for women. SHADOW WARRIORS is the story of women as undercover combatants: armed with Sten guns and grenades; cutting telecommunication wires, laying mines in roadways; organizing bombing raids; preparing the way for the D-Day invasion…

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  • The accidental explorer

    Perce Blackborow is one of the most fascinating Antarctic explorers. An accidental hero. A stowaway who became a key part one of the great stories of survival… “If anyone has to be eaten, then you will be the first!” the expedition leader said. The words might have been a dark joke but, with what was about…

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  • Finally getting a chance to round up some of the reviews and responses to Defying Hitler. USA Today made it one of their Five Books Not To Miss, noting that Publishers Weekly says the book is “an informative counterpoint to accounts of widespread German complicity with the Holocaust.” And the New York Post marked it as one…

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