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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Simple tip for leaving family history info for your children and grandchildren. Something my dad did. youtube.com/shorts/IBaWA...

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My two-part interview with the late actor Norman Eshley, about starring with Orson Welles & Jeanne Moreau in The Immortal Story, & featuring in classic British TV, such as The Sweeney & The Professionals, as well as Richard Fleischer's See No Evil, is now up on YouTube: youtu.be/ttlt2-mTnwc?...

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My film of a Challenger tank firing has got 3.7k view in two days. I think it's the gap between the flash and the bang that fascinates me. We weren't that far away. I was there with a D-Day veteran who took it all in his stride! youtube.com/shorts/53ilv...

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Flash then bang! The mighty Challenger tank

YouTube video by Greg Lewis Writer

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"The author reflects on the lifelong influences behind his passion for WW2, his people-first approach to research & storytelling, & his determination to uncover the forgotten acts of courage." Have a read of my author interview on the Aspects of History website. aspectsofhistory.com/author_inter...

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Greg Lewis - Aspects of History

Greg Lewis reflects on the lifelong influences behind his passion for the Second World War, his people-first approach to research and storytelling, and his determination to uncover the forgotten acts ...

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

For #VJDay the wonderful Duncan Hilling (aged 100) speaking to me in June 2025 at one of Britain's finest little museums Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre. Duncan's talking about arriving in Hiroshima soon after the bomb was dropped. Filmed by Carolyn Hodges. youtube.com/shorts/seMN0...

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100-year-old veteran remembers the dead bodies of Hiroshima #VJDay #ww2

YouTube video by Greg Lewis Writer

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Despite everything about X, and Musk's algorithms reducing engagement for non-Blue Ticks, it's still really heard to get any engagement here or on Threads - unless you ask inane questions. It's a shame X still dominates.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Tucked in there behind two legends, Ken Cam and 'Winkle' Brown. Honoured on behalf of the airmen and resistance heroes of my book. www.amazon.co.uk/Nazi-Ghost-T...

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Cumberland Gap by Lonnie Donegan. What a legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWA9...

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Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap

YouTube video by Larry Jamieson

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The vessel with the pestle.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm guessing those of us involved in the Anthropic class action should start received our payments soon - correct? SoA (UK): societyofauthors.org/2026/07/22/a... Screengrab from the Authors Guild (US):

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fending off fake publishers, podcast ‘agents’, and book clubs twice a day at the moment. How about you? #writingcommunity

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Great to be back on the @theww2podcast with Angus, talking evasion, escape, resistance & betrayal in WW2. See if you can identify which film star is standing over my right shoulder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpX-... #WW2 #historybooks

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The Nazi Ghost Train

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm Substacking now. FFS. Don't worry, I'll soon despair and get bored. I don't even know what I'm doing. open.substack.com/pub/gregiswr...

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I’m human. I ramble. And sometimes I end my posts abruptly.

What is like to be a writer?

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

D-Day commando and sniper Ted Owens answers schoolchildren's questions. I’ll be sharing loads of these in the coming weeks on my YouTube channel so 'please like and subscribe', as the modern saying goes. youtube.com/shorts/g676I...

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D-Day commando & sniper talks about his luckiest escape

YouTube video by Greg Lewis Writer

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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 18/07/2026

I think I’ll stick to Sir Wantsit. At least he communicates a sense of human need beyond capitalism!

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Steffen White @bureaucracybuster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's a GREAT piece of research and writing--and absolutely essential reading, now that we have our own would-be Fuhrer.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Can you believe this, America? My book telling the story of the evasion & betrayal of courageous US & Canadian airmen is the FOURTH HIGHEST SELLING history/military book in the UK this year. The US edition is out now - Pegasus Books. @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Nazi-Ghost-T...

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Good people speaking up - essential for antifascism. Thank you, Clayton.

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Working The Issue @claytonabernathy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I knew. Read "Defying Hitler" by Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis. We still have so much further we can sink. It's bad now. But it gets worse.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you are compiling an antifascist survival kit my book is available in paperback so will fit in a rucksack. www.amazon.com/Defying-Hitl...

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"This is fascinating information and a wonderful read." Thanks for reviewing my book, Julian.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

'The Nazi Ghost Train' in the Brussels Times: '...on the brink of liberation a final act of Nazi vengeance threatened to send 1,400 prisoners to their deaths. What followed was an extraordinary chain of defiance & one of the most remarkable escapes of the war.' www.brusselstimes.com/2134095/the-...

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The train, the Resistance and the miracle that saved 1,400 lives

2 September, 1944. SS officers force 1,400 political prisoners into cattle trucks at gunpoint at Brussels-Midi station.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Me, my wife & children try to do this with my dad... Speak his name without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Not always easy, of course. But it helps. We always smile when he is mentioned. And it feels as if, in some important way, he hasn't left us.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thank you, Jack. Two things keep coming up in podcasts & reviews: *the courage of train driver Louis Verheggen (oh, how I want this ordinary working man to be properly remembered!) *and the awful Prosper Dezitter - a villain who could be in a novel but his betrayals were all too real.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is there a song you just sometimes pop on about three or four times in a row? One of mine is The Card Cheat by The Clash. Doing it now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhbS...

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The Clash - The Card Cheat (Official Audio)

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"I am aware of the works of Jung... not 'familiar', Herr Oberst." The man to have at your side when you're planning to kidnap Churchill. RIP Michael Byrne www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

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Michael Byrne obituary

Character actor whose decades-long career encompassed the National Theatre, war films and Coronation Street

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"A mighty battle was opened on Saturday morning on a front of 25 miles, extending from Gommecourt (twelve miles south of Arras) to a point two miles south of the Somme..." The first reports of the Battle of the Somme appear in British newspapers on July 3, 1916.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Got to take these out of the cabinet today: a curved cricket bat from the late C18th/early C19th & a gut-strung bat used by late C19th coaches for fielding practice - one of only 3 believed to be in existence. Come & see them at the Museum of Welsh Cricket, Sophia Gardens.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

True life adventure, courage, betrayal and escape. A Sunday Times bestseller. Father's Day shopping done! www.amazon.co.uk/Nazi-Ghost-T... Sound on!

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thanks to my friends Claire (travelling through Liverpool John Lennon Airport) and Phil (at Heathrow, where I’m sandwiched between fellow Lewises, Damien and Helen) for taking photos of my book in the wild.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

As my book is now out in the US and Canada, I’d love to celebrate some of those involved. I’m starting with this man, Alfred Sanders, a B-24 Liberator pilot - known to his friends as Al. 1/4

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Five WW2 heroes. Tankman Idwal Davies, #DDay navy veteran Tony Bird, Atlantic Convoy vet Neville Bowen, & Far East vet Duncan Hilling. I was privileged to interview them all. Picture 2: cypher officer Florence Paul (left), who would later marry Tony. Worked in the signal station at Arromanches.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Great to see my book on this recommended list! Many thanks @avalonlibrary.bsky.social "[It] unfolds in a tense&pacy narrative, describing the feeling of terror after being shot down on bombing missions, the fight to stay alive with the Gestapo on your trail, &the gut-wrenching horror of betrayal."

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Lady Pixie Donnington @ladydonnington.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I read this this last week and found it incredibly interesting and heartbreaking in equal measures. More needs to be heard about the resistance to #Nazis. It also highlights the cruelty and evil in continuing to murder as many as possible until the last minute. #BookRecommendation #Belgium #History

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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The train, the Resistance and the miracle that saved 1,400 lives

2 September, 1944. SS officers force 1,400 political prisoners into cattle trucks at gunpoint at Brussels-Midi station.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Two weeks today the Ghost Train reaches the US & Canada The airmen thought their war was over. But it had just begun. Courage, betrayal, evasion, escape in The Nazi Ghost Train.

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Two weeks today the Ghost Train reaches the US & Canada

The airmen thought their war was over. But it had just begun. Courage, betrayal, evasion, escape in The Nazi Ghost Train.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Today (May 11) in 1960 Israeli agents snatched Nazi fugitive Adolf Eichmann off the streets in Buenos Aires where he was living under a fake identity. I explored the diplomatic fall-out from the inclident here. It was rather unprecedented. greglewisinfo.com/2026/01/04/s...

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State kidnapping: how the world responded to the Eichmann ‘snatch’

Among the files on the Mossad – Israel’s Secret Intelligence Service – held at the UK National Archives are dozens of diplomatic reports and memos from the international debate which took place beh…

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Ravensbruck concentration camp was liberated on April 30, 1945. Among those who were murdered there were Denise Bloch, Violette Szabo, Lilian Rolfe, Cecily Lefort - agents of the SOE. I was honoured to be there last year to pay my respects.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

When you delve into declassified files at the National Archives you can't help but think about the people who handled items like these at the height of #WW2. These British intelligence index cards relate to Belgian traitor Prosper Dezitter, a key figure in 'The Nazi Ghost Train'.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Getting a flashback of a teacher wheeling this into a classroom.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Scrolling YouTube brought me to the utterly mad but completely mesmerising William Shatner cover of Common People. A great reminder of what a talent Joe Jackson is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=St8F...

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William Shatner music video for "Common People"

YouTube video by docob5

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Resistance book is a Sunday Times bestseller There is still a place for non-fiction. Still a place for true war stories. Still a place to celebrate the lives of heroes. The airmen, the men and women of the courageous evasion lines, the SOE and the armed resistance.

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Resistance book is a Sunday Times bestseller

There is still a place for non-fiction. Still a place for true war stories. Still a place to celebrate the lives of heroes. The airmen, the men and women of the courageous evasion lines, the SOE and the armed resistance.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Despite his cynicism, defeatism, & (often) conservatism, I've always loved Philip Larkin. I was introduced to him by an English teacher, Mr Malone, when the swearing was sniggeringly funny. But I connected with him - and that's stayed. Because, despite the cynicism, he wrote lines like these.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The Czech & Slovak team sent to kill Reinhard Heydrich parachuted into German-occupied Czechoslovakia OTD (March 28) in 1942. Two months later they ambushed him in Prague. The site of the ambush has changed, but it's still very much worth a visit. How to find it: greglewisinfo.com/2024/05/26/i...

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In the Footsteps of Operation Anthropoid

This week Prague marks the 82nd anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the massacres which followed. I took these photos on a visit to the site a couple of years ago. On May 27, …

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I popped a search of 'Goebbels' into the text of my book 'Defying Hitler' just to highlight the parallels with Trump, Miller, Carr, etc. I was writing about these steps to fascism in 2016. But, everyday now, I still can't quite believe it.

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Greg Lewis @gregjlewis.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My book about airmen’s escape and evasion, betrayal, and one of the most extraordinary acts of #resistance in #WW2 is still flying high on Amazon. Thank you! #readers #amreading

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