In Part 1, I described how in late 1943 and early 1944, Hildegard Uhl had written to her friend Eva Möller, the recipient of Feldpost from the Afrika Korps soldier Hans Coutandin of “Desert Mystery: [more…]
William James Owen formerly a miner and latterly a Labour MP was tried for spying for the Czechs, it’s amazing how often Czech Intelligence’s name crops up when politicians are accused of spying. Better known [more…]
My series of articles Desert Mystery: Letters from a Feldgrau, was based upon the translation of FeldPost letters in my collection that Hans Coutandin, a soldier in the Deutsches Afrika Korps, had sent to Eva [more…]
So we go back to the 1960s and Tom Driberg. A notorious and flamboyant homosexual when such behaviour was likely to get you a jail sentence. Considering he was an ugly so and so I [more…]
It’s time to introduce Satan Blair. To be more precise it concerns the Lord Levy but he was acting on behalf of the great deceiver himself. Michael Abraham Levy, later Lord Levy, was the chief [more…]
Featured song: Oasis – Some Might Say This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]
Our John is one of the more interesting cases. There have been multiple accusations of trade union leaders and Labour MPs taking the Russian shilling though you have to ask whether some of them could [more…]
These days Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, known as Hugh, would be considered one of the good guys but in 1947 he committed one of the worst sins possible in those more genteel times. He [more…]
Featured song: Elton John – Circle of Life This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making [more…]
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