Simple tip for leaving family history info for your children and grandchildren. Something my dad did. youtube.com/shorts/IBaWA...
Greg Lewis
@gregjlewis.bsky.social
Author of Sunday Times bestseller 'The Nazi Ghost Train'. Out in US/Canada, June 2026. Also: ‘Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule’. TV producer #truecrime. Loves cinema & cricket. Rep: Andrew Lownie
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?...
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...
Flash then bang! The mighty Challenger tank
YouTube video by Greg Lewis Writer
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"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...
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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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...
100-year-old veteran remembers the dead bodies of Hiroshima #VJDay #ww2
YouTube video by Greg Lewis Writer
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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.
Simenon: the novelist who digs into the dark side. youtube.com/shorts/m6qCP...
This is my favourite author - who is yours?
YouTube video by Greg Lewis Writer
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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...
Cumberland Gap by Lonnie Donegan. What a legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWA9...
Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap
YouTube video by Larry Jamieson
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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):
Fending off fake publishers, podcast ‘agents’, and book clubs twice a day at the moment. How about you? #writingcommunity
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
The Nazi Ghost Train
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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...
I’m human. I ramble. And sometimes I end my posts abruptly.
What is like to be a writer?
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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...
D-Day commando & sniper talks about his luckiest escape
YouTube video by Greg Lewis Writer
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I think I’ll stick to Sir Wantsit. At least he communicates a sense of human need beyond capitalism!
It's a GREAT piece of research and writing--and absolutely essential reading, now that we have our own would-be Fuhrer.
Greg Lewis@gregjlewis.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks for mentioning the book, Steffen.
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...
Good people speaking up - essential for antifascism. Thank you, Clayton.
Working The Issue@claytonabernathy.bsky.social · 8mo agoI 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.
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.
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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Steffen White@bureaucracybuster.bsky.social · last yr.Just as some Germans maintained their integrity at great risk--or cost--so that responsibility now falls to us. And just as "Nazi" is now a filthy word in today's Germany, "Republican" must become the same in America. www.amazon.com/Defying-Hitl...
"This is fascinating information and a wonderful read." Thanks for reviewing my book, Julian.
@julianworkerwriter.bsky.social · 4mo agoBook Review : The Nazi Ghost Train September 1944 in Belgium saw a train leaving Brussels for the death camps. The passengers were political prisoners and captured airmen - how could the Belgian railway staff help these people avoid a certain death?
'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-...
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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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.
Gracie12 📎@gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis was written by Henry Scott Holland (27 January 1847 – 17 March 1918). He was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. The poem is actually not a poem at all but rather part of a larger speech Henry Scott Holland gave. .
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.
Jack El-Hai@jackelhai.bsky.social · 2mo ago"A devastating betrayal." Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @gregjlewis.bsky.social & @pegasus-books.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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...
The Clash - The Card Cheat (Official Audio)
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
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"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...
Michael Byrne obituary
Character actor whose decades-long career encompassed the National Theatre, war films and Coronation Street
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"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.
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.
