Monday 25th March 2024 On the outskirts of Nordhausen there is a small memorial at the side of the road, in an industrial estate. It…
Category: Prisoner of War
Sunday 24th March 2024 I had been to the 70th and 75th commemorations and no doubt the number of people attending has grown. This time…
Saturday 23rd March 2024 It is quite some gathering of military vehicles at the Stalag Luft III museum in Żagań, Poland. Tanks and armoured vehicles…
During the research for the book Flightpath to Murder, published in 2009, I visited the cemetery at Emmerich, Germany and the mass grave of those…
In 2016 I had the honour to publish ‘You Never Know Your Luck’, the biography of Battle of Britain pilot and Great Escaper Keith ‘Skeets’…
Eighty Years ago today, in the early hours of 30 May 1942, Australian Calton Younger found himself alone, in enemy territory, having only just managed…
In 2011 I had the privilege of interviewing Jack Bromfield who served as a wireless operator on No. 158 Squadron with Bomber Command and was…
Today marks the centenary of the formation of the Royal Australian Air Force, and over the years I have had the privilege to meet some…
Remembering today Great Escaper Gordon Brettell, one of the fifty Allied airmen murdered in the aftermath of the break out from Stalag Luft III. POW…
Remembering the Great Escape 50 who were murdered following their break out from Stalag Luft III in March 1944. My grandfather Arthur Darlow arrived at…