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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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  • How a book journey began

    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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  • 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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  • In the summer of 1978 two former members of a B-17 crew met to discuss their escape from death in a raid on Kassel in Germany in 1943. Sitting on a porch in Tarrytown, New York, co-pilot Bohn Fawkes turned to his navigator Elmer “Benny” Bendiner and said: “You remember that we were hit with…

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