Ardeatine and Truth August 24, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
In the now long-ago examination of the Ivanhorod picture Beach came across a number of sites with, let’s say, disreputable agendas. One of these led to the website of one Germar Rudolf, who must be the only German since the Second World War to have sought asylum in the United States. GR was prosecuted in Germany over […]
A Bugged Conversation from June 1945? May 26, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
***Dedicated to Cristiano and the memory of his old friend Johann Elser*** In the 1930s and the 1940s Britain boasted perhaps the best intelligence services in the world, with only the Soviets as rivals. SIS (aka MI6) operated throughout the Empire but also in allied and potential enemy countries to great effect. When World War […]
Escapes, Wives and Cases October 21, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
A reflection on escapees. Beachcombing was brought up in the shadow of the Second World War where escape stories were nutrition for a growing boy. Then he made the mistake of reading the Count of Monte Cristo at an impressionable age. Are there any more exciting pages in fiction than Edmond’s fake funeral? Beach can […]
