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John Buchan - Author of 'The 39 Steps'
Yesterday, I was very privileged to visit the village of Elsfield in Oxfordshire, where the author John Buchan once lived and his ashes...
Shaun Lewis
Mar 21, 20191 min read
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The First 'C' - Head of MI6
The current and all past heads of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) are and have been known as 'C', for "Chief", but the first...
Shaun Lewis
Feb 11, 20193 min read
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The German U-Boat Blockade of Britain
Today (4th February) in 1915, the German government announced that it would impose a submarine blockade of Great Britain with effect 18th...
Shaun Lewis
Feb 4, 20192 min read
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The Foundations for MI5 and MI6
Both of today’s security services, namely MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service (known popularly as MI6) derive from the original...
Shaun Lewis
Jan 7, 20192 min read
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ANNOUNCING MY NEW HISTORICAL THRILLER - DUE OUT 17 DECEMBER 2018
My new book will be launched in just under two weeks' time. It tells the tale of a young man's reluctant entry into Britain's embryonic...
Shaun Lewis
Dec 4, 20181 min read
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Taster of my new novel - Now the Darkness Gathers
With just five weeks to go before the publication of my pre-WW1 espionage thriller, Now the Darkness Gathers, here is a taster of what...
Shaun Lewis
Nov 12, 20188 min read
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German spies in Britain before WW1
In all my writing, I have three aims; to entertain, to inform and to inspire. To achieve the latter two objectives, I carry out...
Shaun Lewis
Nov 5, 20182 min read
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My Next Book - Now the Darkness Gathers
I have just sent the final proofs back to my publisher for the next novel in my series about the Miller family in WW1. It was odd to read...
Shaun Lewis
Oct 23, 20182 min read
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