General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24 Andrew Rosthorn Thirty years of self-funded investigations into the failed Rudolf Hess peace flight have taken John Harris and Richard Wilbourn close to British secrets that were beyond the ken of Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and quite possibly unknown to Churchill. The astounding events of 10 May 1941, when […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] £5 and one would hope that there will be a discussion of the tranche of files on UFOs that have previously been released by the National Archives.9 Hess and the Doppleganger Hess Andrew Rosthorn’s piece on Rudolf Hess in the current issue10 makes mention of the BBC Timewatch episode ‘Hess: The Edge of Conspiracy’. […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

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[PDF file]: […] though it is outside the parameters of Bowman’s book, how certain are we about Churchill’s popularity in 1940-1941, particularly among those with political influence? Why did Rudolf Hess fly to the UK in May 1941? Waged in September-November 1943 this resulted in 55,000 Italian and British losses (troops killed or captured) against 1,100 German. […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

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[PDF file]: […] to take out a book from the library Who he? Stock informs us that Rees was one of the psychiatrists who helped the intelligence services debrief Rudolf Hess after he had flown to Scotland. He ‘oversaw’ the mental health of Hess for the next few years until his appearance at the Nuremberg trials in […]

The Perennial Conspiracy Theory, and, The Hitler Conspiracies

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[PDF file]: The perennial conspiracy theory The Perennial Conspiracy Theory: Reflections on the History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Michael Hagemeister London: Routledge, 2021, £44.99, h/b The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination Richard J Evans London: Penguin, 2021, £9.99, p/b John Newsinger The Protocols of Hate In the summer of […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ones I have mentioned here in this article. As did his brother Captain Charles Arnold-Baker (née Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal). 16 Following his crash-landing in Scotland, Hess was first taken to the Tower of London. Meanwhile, Mytchett Place near Aldershot was transformed into Camp Z with guards ferried in from nearby Pirbright Barracks. […]

Count Bonde and the search for a compromise peace 1939-1941

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[PDF file]: […] all as a sideshow, some more serious than others, with the ‘Bondi’ episode being particularly jocular. A somewhat more serious approach is taken by Peter Padfield in Hess, Hitler and Churchill (2013) which accurately records (p. 63) that Bonde (the correct spelling) ‘a diplomat serving in the Swedish Legation, in the Swiss capital Berne’, […]

Count Knut Bonde and the Search for a Compromise Peace 1939-1941

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[…] all as a sideshow, some more serious than others, with the ‘Bondi’ episode being particularly jocular. A somewhat more serious approach is taken by Peter Padfield in Hess, Hitler and Churchill (2013) which accurately records (p. 63) that Bonde (the correct spelling) ‘a diplomat serving in the Swedish Legation, in the Swiss capital Berne’, […]

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