The Book Hitler’s Spies: Lena, The Prelude to Operation Sealion; Mel Kavanaugh; Pen & Sword Books, 2020. Summary This book was not what I expected. Given it’s title, I thought it would cover all of the Operation Lena spies, but it was focused solely on the first four who landed along the coast of Kent […]
Who would you bet on if it came to BuzzFeed and the BBC? Yeah, I’d bet on the BBC too but… in this case, BuzzFeed wins. I came across two videos on the Bella in the Wych Elm mystery a few months ago and watched both of them. Not even comparable. BBC’s Snapshot: A 2-Minute
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The Article The Article: The Irish Interlude: German Intelligence in Ireland, 1939-1943Author(s): Mark M. HullSource: The Journal of Military History, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul., 2002), pp. 695-717Published by: Society for Military HistoryAccessed via: https://www.academia.edu/3215973/The_Irish_Interlude_German_Intelligence_in_IrelandStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3093356 I know virtually nothing about the German spies who landed in the Republic of Ireland during the Second
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A friend of mine had told me about Mark Felton’s YouTube video channel back in the summer of 2024. My friend raved about the channel but, given my busy schedule, I hadn’t had a chance to view any of the videos. Imagine then, my surprise when I received an email from Mark out of the
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As noted in the previous post, the first part of Margaret’s second memoir/letter (published 28 July, 2014) covered the tale end of the Second World War, while the second part delved into her Cold War Adventures. The third and final memoir/letter (published 25 August, 2014) continued the Cold War theme, so I have lumped the
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Margaret Spencer is about to tell us about her wartime exploits in this, the first of her “memoir” letters published in the Eastbourne Herald on 21 July, 2014. We are not sure when these letters were written. If they were written in the last few years of her life, then Margaret would have been in
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In July and August 2014, the Eastbourne Herald published three letters that Margaret Spencer had written to her family. The letters detailed some of Margaret’s supposed wartime (and post war) adventures as an SIS agent (Secret Intelligence Service – aka MI6). Published posthumously after her death by her family, the letters paint a picture of
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I admit to being sucked down a rabbit hole. When I overheard that conversation in a community centre, about a German spy parachuting into England dressed as a nun, I had just wanted to confirm or deny that it actually happened. In searching for “spies dressed as nuns”, I came across the story of Margaret
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The Book Hitler’s British Traitors: The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists; Tim Tate; Icon Books, 2019. Summary I came across this book while looking for resources on the Fifth Column in Britain. I had read A.W.B. Simpson’s article, “In the Highest Degree Odious”, which covered the wartime detention of British (and foreign)
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The Book Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter; Robert Hutton; St. Martin’s Press, 2019. Summary I had come across Agent Jack King (and Maxwell Knight) as I researched various other spies and traitors. I hadn’t really paid much attention to this mysterious agent, and am not quite sure how this book
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