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20th Century

Return To The Jernbanemysterium, Part Three

22nd March 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Let’s cut to the quick and get down to brass tacks. Or rather cut to a railway line on the icy wastes of central Norway and investigate a strange trackside anomaly only visible to sharp-eyed [more…]

20th Century

Return To The Jernbanemysterium, Part Two

15th March 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

Did we ever get to Lille? Those who know, know. Yes, we did, at about episode 70 of this humble racenteur’s hitty-missy Postcard of the same name that was once a staple of Saturday evening [more…]

20th Century

Return To The Jernbanemysterium

8th March 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

A phrase lingers in the mind. In passing, Mr. DH — my colleague, a fellow Puffin to us all, and master of that mysterious gift known as the turn of phrase — once summed up [more…]

20th Century

Elizabeth Bentley, Part Four

12th February 2025 well_chuffed 0

Elizabeth Bentley was another American born Soviet agent who turned against the Soviets. Whittaker Chambers became disillusioned with the Communists. Elizabeth was the woman scorned. She was the lover of Jacob Golos who ran quite [more…]

20th Century

Whittaker Chambers, Part Three

20th November 2024 well_chuffed 0

In 1938 Whittaker Chambers defected. Well they call it defected but he was an American in the USA who worked for the NKVD but saw the light and severed relations with the Soviets. Defection is [more…]

20th Century

The Venona Project, Part Two

30th October 2024 well_chuffed 0

The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]

20th Century

Stalin won the war, Part One

23rd October 2024 well_chuffed 0

Instead of diving further into the UK’s entanglement with the commies in the thirties, it’s time to take a look at what was going on over the pond. Much of the thirties antics over here [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Four – Berlin

17th September 2024 Going Postal 0

When my friend Alfred Friedel comes off duty it’s usually somewhere around one o’clock in the morning. For Alfred is a newspaperman. And morning newspapermen the world over live like owls. Take a good look [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Three – Hamburg

10th September 2024 Going Postal 0

You climb into an aeroplane at Amsterdam Schiphol and as soon as you are comfortably airborne, you order an excellent dry sherry and nibble at a picnic lunch which you don’t really need. You try [more…]

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