Discovering Küehne + Nagel’s Dark WWII Past WHEN I worked for the shipping and transport giant Küehne + Nagel, I was pleased to be a small part of the global logistics heavyweight. It was a company built on precision, reliability, and efficiency. Containers, tilt trailers, freight rates and manifests: this was the language of our …
Introduction IF YOU'VE READ my posts 'Fallen Eagle' and 'Lost Souls' you will know that my son Josh was, for several years, a member of one of the UKs premier World War Two re-enactment groups. (Right) Josh portraying a Gefreiter [Lance Corporal] of the German 21st Infanterie Rest time at the field kitchen (Left) Manning …
MY INTEREST IN The Battle of the Atlantic runs deep. You see, both my grandfather and my father served in the Royal Navy during wartime. During WW1, my grandfather, then a Chief Petty Officer, was a master gunner aboard the iconic battleship, HMS Dreadnought. HMS Dreadnought A couple of decades later, in WW2, my father …
SOME FASCINATIONS begin in childhood and never let go. For me, one such allure was the silent menace of submarines—sleek, powerful vessels gliding unseen beneath the waves. In later years I found something similarly captivating on land: the commanding presence of smartly painted, intelligently-designed heavy lorries—powerful machines that appear as stunning and substantive as any …
Forward view from the conning tower of HMS TRIBUNE running on the surface in Scottish waters. Prior to writing my post, ‘Six Weeks Silent Service,’ it was necessary for me to to obtain details of life aboard a World War Two submarine. This meant accessing a number of useful websites. Information from these sites enabled …
While drafting a recent post, ‘The Worst Journey in the World,’ I was conducting a final edit of the piece when I remembered that I possessed an old ring binder containing my father’s mementos of his Russian Convoy Club membership. I knew the folder had included an assortment of relevant press cuttings, and suspecting that …
Elsewhere on this site I’ve expressed my love for cycling the near-deserted backroads and byways of my local area here in north Lincolnshire. One place which features regularly on my circuits is the village of Goxhill. When visiting Goxhill for the first time, the signage on each of the approach roads aroused my interest, proudly …
When I was first bitten with the urge to write, it was fiction I had in mind. I guess this was inevitable as I’d been reading the stuff since I was old enough to hold a library card ... and pay a fine for a late return. Whilst I still love fiction, it's fair to …
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