Thrilled to be presenting Coffee with Hitler at the inaugural Chartwell Literature Festival 8-10 September 2023, Chartwell, Westerham, Kent.
@ChartwellNT
@OneworldNews
Author’s copies of the paperback
#CoffeeWithHitler
have just arrived. Kudos to
@batsmansam
and the rest of the
@OneworldNews
team for an immaculate production. In all good bookshops 7th September and available to pre-order now. Please re-post if your friends might like it…
Joachim Ribbentrop, Hitler's envoy, arriving in London for disarmament talks in May 1934, with secretary Erich Kordt. (Am I the only person to be reminded of Thomson and Thompson from Herge's Tintin books) as featured in
#coffeewithhitler
@OneworldNews
@Pegasus_Books
Impressed (and not a little envious) at the stock of
@simonmontefiore
#theworld
just arrived at
@Hatchards
running well past 1000 pages and 64 hours of audio, should keep history readers busy.
Thank you to
@waterstones_exe
@WaterstonesEHS
for tucking Coffee with Hitler in their window alongside the extraordinary Alice Winn. A real boost for a neophyte author. Good ol
@Waterstones
Delighted to have been interviewed by the inestimable Jackson van Uden, a real expert on totalitarian regimes and a champion of accessible but high quality history.
@historywjackson
@OneworldNews
@Pegasus_Books
We're pleased to share that our episode with
@CharlesSpicer
on his book with
@OneworldNews
'Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis' is out!
You're going to enjoy this amazing informative episode! Listen here
Introducing Dr Thomas Philip Conwell-Evans, (1892-1968) – historian, political secretary and intelligence agent. Educated Carmarthen Grammar School,
@JesusCollege
Oxford (MA) and
@LSE
(PhD). Shadowy go-between London and Berlin and protagonist of my book
#CoffeeWithHitler
.
Delightful visit to the newly expanded, extended and transformed Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury
@GH_Sudbury
truly stunning and highly recommended.
Tickets still available for the Chartwell Literature Festival 8-10 September where I am honoured to be presenting Coffee with Hitler alongside leading Churchillian experts. Please join us if you can!
#chartlitfest
#chartwell
@OneworldNews
@batsmansam
Intriguing recent discoveries, Part 1. Found in a suitcase of interwar Anglo-German ephemera. Tickets for a British visitor to the key events at the 1937 Reichsparteitag (Nazi Party Rally).
#CoffeewithHitler
@OneworldNews
Introducing Group Captain Malcolm Grahame Christie CMG, MC, DSO (1881-1971), aviator, diplomat and intelligence agent. Overlooked Great War hero and protagonist of my book
#CoffeeWithHitler
. L in 1914; R in 1919
#RFC
#RAF
#FWW
At 2 AM on July 11, 1958, newly married couple Richard and Mildred Loving were abruptly awakened in their bedroom by a Virginia sheriff.
The sheriff questioned Richard, a white man, asking, "What are you doing in bed with this woman?"
Mildred, a woman of both Black and
Thrilled to get my first royalties cheque/check for the US edition of Coffee With Hitler (available from all good bookshops). Many thanks to all
@Pegasus_Books
for working so hard to ensure we covered the advance! And to
@HelenLEdwards
for introducing us.
@PegasusJulia1
Joaquin Sorolla celebrates this birth of his daughter Elena, showing just the heads of his wife Clotilde and the newborn as they seem to waft peacefully in a sea of white, as gentle light spreads soft shadows (Mother, 1895/1900)
My excitement is mounting for the release of the inestimable
@GilesMilton1
‘s newest meisterwerk The Stalin Affair published by
@johnmurrays
9 May 2024
'Don't worry, darling. If the UAE buys the Telegraph I doubt the cartoons will change'
My latest cartoon for tomorrow's
@Telegraph
Buy a print of my cartoons at
Original artwork from
Catching up on all the lovely visits from authors that we have had this month, we also had a surprise visit from
@CharlesSpicer
who was kind enough to sign our stock of his wonderful book Coffee with Hitler. You can still find signed copies downstairs on our history table.
A sliver of light in the mayhem. This disgusting destructive Israeli govt inept idiotic but also brutish in act, repellent in intentions must go.
For gods sake pour in aid to the people of Gaza
Israel’s supreme court stops anti-democratic grab
Author’s copies of the paperback
#CoffeeWithHitler
have just arrived. Kudos to
@batsmansam
and the rest of the
@OneworldNews
team for an immaculate production. In all good bookshops 7th September and available to pre-order now. Please re-post if your friends might like it…
Introducing Leopold von Hoesch (1881-1936), the German ambassador to London and ardent Anglophile, with his beloved dogs on the terrace of the German embassy at Carlton House Terrace.
#CoffeewithHitler
Joachim Ribbentrop, by then German ambassador to the Court of St James's, shooting at Broadlands, Lord Mount Temple's country estate in Hampshire. 2 December 1936. As featured in Coffee with Hitler
@OneworldNews
@Pegasus_Books
Please watch and share this extraordinary TED talk by our dear friend the inestimable Charles Sabine OBE, tireless campaigner for the rights and lives of people suffering from Huntington’s Disease.
@IXICOnews
@spencercheats
Given that
@MichelleMone
made her cash from lingerie and has now admitted to lying on
@bbclaurak
on national television, I surprised not to have seen more “liar, liar, pants on fire” headlines…
Conwell-Evans looking at the cine camera with which A. J. Sylvester films the tea party hosted by Hitler for Lloyd George and his party. Behind him, Lord Dawson, Paul Schmidt, Megan Lloyd George and Tom Jones listen attentively to the Führer, 7 September 1936
Belatedly reading this astonishingly engrossing true story by the inestimable
@RealVikramSeth
kindly given to me by
@HiSheriffLondon
A must for anyone interested in 20c history, England, Germany, India and, agonisingly, the Holocaust…
@LittleBrownUK
@AbacusBooks
Joachim Ribbentrop’s villa in Dahlem, Berlin, where he hosted dinner for Heinrich Himmler and Ernest Tennant, founder of the Anglo-German Fellowship, on the evening before the Night of the Long Knives. June 1934.
#CoffeewithHitler
Grahame Christie, part 2. This is MGC in his Blackburn Type 1 monoplane with pilot Harold Blackburn behind. In Oct 1913 they won the War of the Roses air race (Yorks vs Lancs, Blackburn vs Avro)
This is Cornwall Gardens, a quiet tree-lined square in Kensington, London, where Conwell-Evans hosted secret meetings with the German resistance to Hitler and leading British civil servants including Sir Robert Vansittart and Sir Horace Wilson.
#CoffeewithHitler
I have just listened to this quite fascinating new episode of the legendary
@buzzkillprof
interview with
@DrStruthers
whose extraordinary new book goes to the top of my list.
Honoured beyond measure to be asked to represent
@HumaneRoyal
at the funeral of our beloved patron, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, at
@wabbey
. Also representing
@FishmongersCo
as Prime Warden. Proud to have served as Her Majesty's representative as High Sheriff of Greater London
Heartfelt (and only slightly jealous) congratulations to all those nominated for the
@DuffCooperPrize
so generously supported by
@Pol_Roger
#twitterhistorians
please re-tweet to spread the word. Having a top notch champagne house sponsoring our community has to be a good thing!
We are disappointed with the kitsch Easter cake plate from
@DunelmUK
Packed loose without any protection so it arrived broken. Note the spelling of “availbale” on the side. Quality control is important!
Wonderful evening on Wednesday visiting the new Crown Jewels display
@TowerOfLondon
to celebrate Coronation year. Excellent and thoughtful historical context setting. Well worth a visit. Thank you
@HRP_palaces
@HRP_learning
@RCT
Grahame Christie, part 5. Here is Christie's whisky drinking buddy, most valuable intelligence source and 'Gesprachspartner' (talking partner), Hermann Göring, and his wife Emmy attending the opera ball at the Staatsoper, Unter den Linden in Berlin.
@guywalters
Oh dear, Guy, you’ve obviously not been served a good one. At Harry’s Bar in Venice the menu used to include a note saying (my translation) “Please do not use your mobile phone in the restaurant as it interferes with the cooking of the risotto “.
@RevRichardColes
Their priority, rightly in my view, was to prevent disruption. Imagine if a group of atheists tried to disrupt a religious funeral service. We’d be rightly appalled.
@OneworldNews
Intriguing discoveries, Part 2. Calling card for Colonel Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz who was sent by Goering to reconnoitre his coming to London for George VI's Coronation. Previously adjutant to von Richthofen in Great War and later injured in the Bomb Plot in 1944.
One of my favourite parts of the annual carol service at
@SidneySussex
is the vision of Oliver Cromwell with a Christmas tree. His gaze is on it, and he doesn't look happy.
And here is the grave in Carlton House Terrace of von Hoesch’s devoted companion, Giro, who died after chewing electric cable in 1934. Often dubbed the ‘only Nazi grave’ in London, there’s no evidence of the dog’s political leanings and his owner was no fan of the NSDAP.
‘How might the British have handled Hitler differently?’ remains one of history’s greatest ‘what ifs’.
Coffee with Hitler tells the story of how a handful of amateur British intelligence agents befriended the leading National Socialists.
Book now:
Johnson’s Brexit chicanery has led us into Doublethink Britain
This is the best article explaining the idiocy of Brexit I’ve read in seven years. Please read and retweet if you agree.
For a really good read on British appeasement before WW2, I would highly recommend
#CoffeeWithHitler
by
@CharlesSpicer
. Some great anecdotes snd characters in a very easy read on a fascinating topic I knew little about. You won’t be disappointed.