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Now out on Netflix is ‘King and the Crook’. This is the tale of Johannes S Andersen – better known as ‘Gulosten’. Andersen was a major criminal during prohibition, and a resistance fighter during WW2, who got away with the murder of two Germans after peace had been declared. But he was also a good […]

Tore Jorgensen, a Norwegian born Canadian, is currently putting together a very exciting book based around his father’s experiences as a wartime Police Officer – one of 271 officers who were arrested by the Germans in 1943 under the code name of ‘Aktion Polarkreis’ . Tore, who was born in Kristiansund, but emigrated to Canada […]

Aside from writing on PatrickDalzel-Job, I am also writing an adaptation of ‘Redd Gullet!’ (see Redd Gullet! page) for consideration as a TV documentary or as a film and so begins the exciting story of perhaps the greatest gold snatch in wartime history…I would also like to publish the original manuscript as a book in […]

There are two Norwegian film documentary companies who have done great work in filming stories from WW2. The companies are Gammaglimt AS and Ekkofilms. Gammglimt produced a great film on Orkla Mines Raid in Norway, which was shown in the actual mine in 2011. Titled, Treason and Sabotage the story is a controversial one based […]

Now in its 43rd year, The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Once again, it returns to Earls Court in west London for a Fair that covers all aspects of the industry. Having returned from the Fair […]

Les Smale – survivor of HMS Hardy. Ron Cope, an experienced researcher,  has been documenting the history  surrounding HMS Hardy – the destroyer that was lost at the Battle of Narvik. There were two battles at Narvik with the Royal Navy inflicting substantial damage to the German Kriegsmarine. HMS Hardy subsequently became a victim of […]

Mike Jones, a researcher from Southern England has been carrying out some terrific research in to submersible canoes.  Recently, Mike met up with the Norwegian ex-Linge (Norwegian Commando) man and vastly respected WW2 historian, Ragnar Ulstein, to show him a restored MSC – Motorised Submersible Canoe. Ragnar was accompanied by his wife and the Curator […]

  Can you identify these signatures? Email me your suggestions and I’ll let you know if you’re right. Great work being carried out by Trevor Baker with his research into clandestine flights from Bromma in Sweden to RAF Leuchars in Scotland. Needless to say it was the best method of travel for those going to […]

Currently, there is some very interesting research being carried out by Paul Buvarp on the history of Rowland Kenney – British Press Attaché in Oslo, Norway. This man had significant connections to British SIS from WW1 and again during WW2. Kenney’s escape from Norway when the Germans invaded is particularly interesting and involved using a […]