-Author of Black Hearts and Bullets-
SOPHIE JACKSON
THE BOOKS
Sophie Jackson has been writing about history for the last decade. It all began with an aticle on the ancient game of Nine Men's Morris, since then she has written about murder, espionage, Artic exploration and warfare. Her work has won acclaim both at home and abroad. So if you are looking for a good history book you have found the right place.
SOE's Balls of Steel
Operation Rubble, 147 willing volunteers and 25,000 tons of ballbearings
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Steel, imported from Sweden, was the lifeblood of the British war effort. In particular ballbearings. So when the Germans blockaded Sweden it was with the intention of starving the British military of supplies and forcing a British surrender.
Britain needed daring blockade busters to save its supplies and continue the war-effort. Without steel there could simply be no planes, tanks or guns. George Binney took up the challenge; along with teams of volunteers he risked German wrath to rescue British steel. The missions were dangerous, often fatal, but also vital. Without Binney, and without steel, the war was lost...
Death by Chocolate
The Serial Poisoning of Victorian Brighton
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When 4-year-old Sidney Barker ate a poisoned chocolate and died people were prepared to believe it was an accident. But when more bags of poisoned sweets began appearing around Brighton it was clear a poisoner was on the loose.
Sophie Jackson reveals a true story of murder, sex and drugs that rocked gentile British society and had people asking serious questions about the nature of criminal insanity. Life in Victorian Brighton would never be the same again.
Churchill's White Rabbit
The True Story of a Real-Life James Bond
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Wing Commander Yeo-Thomas was a little too old to fly, but was determined to play a part in the British war effort. Joining the fledgling SOE he became a secret agent working with the French Resistance. A natural spy with a flare for invention, he was always one step ahead of the Gestapo. Until the fatal day in Paris when he was betrayed by a comrade.
Sophie Jackson tracks the story of an unsung hero, from his time with the Resistance to his death sentence in a concentration camp and his miraculous escape. Charting the life of one of the many stars of SOE.
British Interrogation Techniques
in the Second World War
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Some of the best interrogators of WW2 did not use torture or brutality to gain information. The British were some of the best, inventing techniques we now would consider standard.
From hidden microphones to stool pigeons, and even a ghost story or two, the British had a range of tricks up their sleeve and none involved the sadistic cruelty employed by the Gestapo or SS. So good were their techniques the Germans began to adopt them! Explore one of the secret aspects of WW2.
Churchill's Unexpected Guests
Prisoners of War in Britain in World War II
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Between 1940 and 1945 Britain was host to tens of thousands of Italian, German and other nationality prisoners of war. Somehow they had to be housed and cared for, and, post-war, German prisoners had to be assessed for Nazi leanings.
Yet the story of POWs in Britain is almost forgotten; the camps gone, the records lost, until all that is left is memories. Churchill's Unexpected Guests explores a lost part of Britain's wartime history.