WW2
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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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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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Among the files on the Mossad – Israel’s Secret Intelligence Service – held at the UK National Archives are dozens of diplomatic reports and memos from the international debate which took place behind closed doors after the Israelis went into Argentina, kidnapped Adolf Eichmann, and brought him back for trial. I went through these documents…
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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.
Greg Lewis 