Getting a flashback of a teacher wheeling this into a classroom.

Episode one: "Is it spaghetti or is it linguini?"

Or, perhaps, given the spelling of the second one: "Is it linguini or linguine?"

William Shatner music video for "Common People" YouTube video by docob5

Scrolling YouTube brought me to the utterly mad but completely mesmerising William Shatner cover of Common People.

A great reminder of what a talent Joe Jackson is.

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Resistance book is a Sunday Times bestseller 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.

Resistance book is a Sunday Times bestseller

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.

Despite his cynicism, defeatism, & (often) conservatism, I've always loved Philip Larkin.
I was introduced to him by an English teacher, Mr Malone, when the swearing was sniggeringly funny.
But I connected with him - and that's stayed.
Because, despite the cynicism, he wrote lines like these.

In the Footsteps of Operation Anthropoid 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, …

The Czech & Slovak team sent to kill Reinhard Heydrich parachuted into German-occupied Czechoslovakia OTD (March 28) in 1942.

Two months later they ambushed him in Prague.

The site of the ambush has changed, but it's still very much worth a visit.
How to find it:
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...Anyway, it's here now.

And a new kind. It always changes its clothes slightly. Crooked businessmen and conmen is its new dresswear.

Sending strength to our peace-loving, rights-supporting friends in the US.

I popped a search of 'Goebbels' into the text of my book 'Defying Hitler' just to highlight the parallels with Trump, Miller, Carr, etc.

I was writing about these steps to fascism in 2016. But, everyday now, I still can't quite believe it.

My book about airmen’s escape and evasion, betrayal, and one of the most extraordinary acts of #resistance in #WW2 is still flying high on Amazon.

Thank you!
#readers #amreading

Top 5 in THREE Amazon bestseller lists

'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.

Writing’s long journey 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 of the short stories and 'novels' I wrote as a child featured characters operating behind-the-lines in occupied countries, the Gestapo on their trail.

Writing’s long journey

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…

Bringing a true story to life

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…

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 remarkab…

‘On account of sabotage… we were liberated.’

Confused, I asked John what Florent meant. How could ‘sabotage’ save what Florent claimed was 1,500 lives?

‘Ah, that was le train fantôme,’ John said. ‘The ghost train…’
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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…

The Nazi Ghost Train up and running on Amazon.

An epic tale of action & adventure, uncovering a story of airmen on the run and resistance heroes carrying out espionage & sabotage.

Betrayed, they all face the same fate: a concentration camp.
#publicationday

@TheMirrorBooks

Thanks, Anders. I know, a very powerful letter. He was only 20!

The Nazi Ghost Train is part of the display at the London Book Fair.

On the Mirror Books stand close to Terry Venables and Helen Flanagan.

It's out TODAY!

#lbf #LondonBookFair2026 #writers #readers #books

Lancaster pilot Kevin McSweeney was only 20 when he wrote this to his family back home in Bomaderry, New South Wales.

'We are the premium that has to be paid to insure freedom for the future.'

It was his last letter home before found himself shot down... and on the run.

#theNaziGhostTrain #books

Missing in action... two airmen from 'The Nazi Ghost Train'.

Halifax pilot Stuart Leslie, of the RCAF, and Flying Fortress top turret gunner Bill Muse, from North Carolina.

While their families worry, their future lies on the 'ghost train'.

...His wife Erika was arrested & their daughters Uta (13) & Adelheid (5) were put in a children's home.

Thankfully, they escaped prolonged punishment & were reunited with their mother.

Tresckow's sons, Rudiger &Mark, were allowed to stay in the army.

Mark died in 1945, aged 17.

German officer Henning von Tresckow & his family.

Having served with distinction in Poland & France, Tresckow become disillusioned with the Nazis and began to plot to assassinate Hitler.

He killed himself after the failure of Operation Valkyrie.

But what of his family...?

Thank you Mirror Books for promoting 'The Nazi Ghost Train' in newspapers across the UK this weekend.

And thanks to my friend Lawrence for collecting the cuttings.

(PS Did you know that with a library card you can read newspapers on Press Reader?)

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 remarkab…

How my friendship with a wonderful man named John Evans, an RAF pilot and evader, led to my new book, ‘The Nazi Ghost Train’.

(I'll try to tell you John's own story some time this week.)

#WW2 #book
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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…

Odette Sansom said goodbye to her three young daughters and volunteered to become an SOE agent in Occupied France.

Captured, tortured, and imprisoned in a solitary cell in Ravensbruck, she managed to return to her family.

In August 1946, she was awarded the George Cross.

Yvonne Cormeau, who survived for more than a year as an #SOE wireless operator in Occupied France. Incredibly important and dangerous work.
She also paid this tribute to the ordinary French folk who helped her - risking their lives to allow her to transmit from their home.
#WW2

One week to go!

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…

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: airmen; Resistance men & women; and SOE saboteurs.
And, an horrific traitor. Pretty much worse than anyone you could make up.

WW2 heroes.
Courier Andrée Borrel arrived in France in 1942 to work for SOE circuit leader, Francis Suttill.
Posing as a brother & sister, they recruited new agents, organised air drops, & carried out sabotage.
Betrayed, she was executed in Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

Tragedies of war

War is often treated as an adventure or an exciting news story but the things people see in war often affect them for life. This is a glimpse into one man's horror. It took place in April 1942 when two RAF Squadrons headed for besieged Malta on the US aircraft carrier Wasp. The…