It was the creation of a cycle track along Route 22 in Złotów County, north-central Poland that drew me back to the Road of Slaughter eight years after my first visit. This time I was with two experts on what happened in late January and early February 1945 rather than piecing together events and locations … More Return to the Road of Slaughter
I’m getting back on the road in October and November and once again heading east. At the start of October I’ll be picking up a car in Berlin and driving to Szczecin to explore the east and west banks of the Oder, and then at the end of the month I’ll be in Latvia, doing … More Back on the road
The Eastern Front was hell. In the winter temperatures dropped to minus 20. Many men got frostbite and thousands of Latvians were killed in combat. I have pieced their stories together in English with a great deal of help from a team of translators, archivists and researchers behind the scenes. There were two Latvian divisions … More What to expect
A blog sharing stories from the Eastern Front gathered in the writing of my books. I specialise in oral history and eyewitness testimony, so these are the memories of people caught up in the hell of WWII in the east. Some stories come from archive testimony recorded in Latvia, which I have had translated into … More Welcome to Eastern Front eyewitness
On Friday 22 August at 7pm I’ll be a featured guest on the excellent WW2TV YouTube channel, talking to historian and host Paul Woodadge about my latest book ‘Escape from Berlin – the incredible journey of the Latvian 15th SS Division Janums Battle Group’, which is published by Helion. Colonel Janums abandoned his positions south-east of … More An interview with WW2TV historian Paul Woodadge
Eastern Front Eyewitness 