Month: April 2018

Enemy Property Act 1953

A few years ago, I wrote a blog about the farewell letters of the executed spies in England. Those letters, written by condemned men on the day/night preceding their execution, were to have been delivered to their families after the Second World War. They never were. The letters sat in the files of MI5 and,

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Book Review – Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany – Norman Ohler (2016)

The Book Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany. Norman Ohler. Penguin Books. 2016. Summary This book was originally published in German in 2015, translated into English for 2016, and I got my hands on a copy a few weeks ago. It’s been translated into 25 languages and received rave reviews by numerous journalists. On the other

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Adventures in Publishing – Rapid Expansion of the To-Do List

Goodness… I had a sense that publishing a book was an endeavour but… to be frank, it does seem a bit overwhelming! So, I am getting organized. Here’s the plan of attack and some aspects of the book publishing obstacle course. Preliminaries Sign Publishing Contract This feels a bit like I’m signing away my first

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A Publishing Deal for “Shoot Straight Tommies! – The untold story of Josef Jakobs, last person executed in the Tower of London

Great news! The History Press has agreed to publish my manuscript on Josef Jakobs! It’s been a very long journey to reach this point, and it’s not over yet. The manuscript is a bit of a ragtag thing at the moment with dangling footnotes, unincorporated notes and formatting issues. It needs an index, a table

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