Month: May 2019

Robin W.G. Stephens – Clues from a Gravestone

War separates families. It separated Josef Jakobs from his wife and children, permanently. It’s not a unique story but sometimes I wonder… after hostilities… do people find each other again? Or are they forever burst asunder by the legacy of conflict? A few months back, I had written a blog post about the apparent estrangement […]

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The Mysterious Ernst Bodo Wilhelm Theophil von Zitzewitz and his connection to Vera Eriksen

N.B. updated 25 May 2019 Last week I posted a book review of David Tremain’s new book: The Beautiful Spy: The Life and Crimes of Vera Eriksen. On the last page of the book Tremain mentions that, according to Kirstine Kloster Anderson (a Danish writer who also published a book on Vera), Vera’s burial was

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Book Review – The Beautiful Spy – the Life and Crimse of Vera Eriksen – David Tremain (2019)

The BookThe Beautiful Spy – The Life and Crimes of Vera Eriksen. David Tremain. The History Press. 2019. SummaryIn late September 1940, two men and a woman beached their inflatable life raft on the coast of Scotland. The group split up, one man (Werner Walti) went off on his own and got as far as

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