This advice, penned in an 1847 letter from an overlander to his eastern kin, was based on terrible experience. The writer was one of the emigrant party led west by George Donner in the summer of 1846 with California their goal, but tragedy their eventual destination. It started easily enough. Alt...
He was finally liberated in April 1945.New Year’s Day 1944. They can’t win. Hitler is losing lives for nothing. We heard yesterday that the Russians have launched an offensive of 300,000 men. The Russian steam-roller. May it roll everything before it. An educational scheme is afoot. At first I en...
Either they are taken by Vril-powered UFOs to Antarctica (like Hitler) or remodelled by plastic surgery to live in the USSR (like Martin Bormann). Then there is the strange case of Heinrich Himmler.In April 1945, as the end of the Third Reich loomed, Hitler’s number one – and the architect of the...
He flew a Hawker Hurricane Mk I, the mainstay RAF fighter during the Battle of Britain.I was supposed to be away on a day’s leave but dropped back to the aerodrome to see if there was a letter from my wife. When I found out that all the squadrons had gone off into action, I decided to stand by, b...