A reader of Hitler’s Last Army has sent me details of an article which recently appeared in the Great Yarmouth Mercury. Builders renovating a house in the Norfolk village of…
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Zoologist and film-maker Heinz Sielmann (1917 – 2006) was the German equivalent of Britain’s David Attenborough. His extraordinary life and accomplishments are celebrated in a documentary on the NDR TV…
The BBC Two drama, Close to the Enemy tells the story of a German scientist just after WW2 who is brought to Britain to help with the development of the…
On 17 September 2016, The Times published the obituary of a former German prisoner of war, Eduard Luedtke, who had died in Hertfordshire on 24 July at the age of…
The winter of 1947 was extremely harsh with heavy falls of snow which threatened Britain’s fragile economy in those difficult post-war days. One of the German prisoners held in Britain,…
I have received an enquiry about German prisoners of war in Soviet captivity during WW2. As my book, Hitler’s Last Army, is about German prisoners in the UK I’m by…
Hitler’s Last Army – which came out in 2015 – now has seven five-star reviews on Amazon. My thanks to those who have made such kind and positive comments, and…
For more info on German prisoners of war in the United Kingdom, see the Wikipedia article that I have contributed to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_United_Kingdom Much of the information appears in my book,…
Six readers have now given Five-Star Reviews on Amazon to Hitler’s Last Army ! My sincere thanks to you all – glad you enjoyed the book!
In the diary he kept during his time as a soldier in the German army and as a prisoner of war in Britain, Eberhard Wendler wrote the following in the…