Hitler’s 1933 Strategy

Hitler’s 1933 Strategy

What follows is an excerpt from Lebensborn, the second novel in the series, The Addlestone Chronicles. James and Donald have been captured by a rogue MI6 cell of agents who have switched their allegiance to Nazi Germany. One of these was Max Kingsley-Paige, an avowed...
Voter Suppression: The Apostles Paper

Voter Suppression: The Apostles Paper

My next four postings contain consecutive sections of a paper that is presented to the Cambridge Apostles, a Marxist leaning secret society based in Trinity College. These segments are taken from Addlestone, the first novel in the series The Addlestone Chronicles. In...
The Nazi Salute

The Nazi Salute

Here’s another snippet from Addlestone, the first book in the trilogy, The Addlestone Chronicles: James and Louise are on their way to Munich and then Berlin, on assignment for the British Secret Services department, MI5. “At the German border, it was sleeting...
John Maynard Keynes – (1883 – 1946)

John Maynard Keynes – (1883 – 1946)

Keynes appears with speaking parts in all three of my Addlestone Chronicles historical novels. In these, James and Louise are Cambridge undergraduate students in 1934. James studies Maths at King’s College, and Louise studies Modern Languages at Newnham College....
Joachim von Ribbentrop

Joachim von Ribbentrop

What follows is an extract from the Historical Background section of Lebensborn, the second book in The Addlestone Chronicles trilogy: “Joachim von Ribbentrop is mentioned on several occasions in Addlestone and Lebensborn. He was a sycophantic supporter of Hitler, who...