Resistance
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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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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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During the liberation of Chartres a Life magazine photographer spotted Simone Segouin and snapped a photograph, turning the 19-year-old into an icon of the French Resistance and the Liberation. Photographer Robert Capa and reporter Jack Belden had driven into the embattled city in August 1944 with soldiers from General George S. Patton’s Third Army. Intrigued…
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This week Prague marks the 82nd anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the massacres which followed. I took these photos on a visit to the site a couple of years ago. On May 27, 1942, Heydrich’s car joined this road turning sharply to follow the main route towards the city centre. But the…
Greg Lewis 