PinnedTHE DOUBLE AGENT: How an unexpected meeting in a restaurant turned a British man into a Cold War…John Burchenshaw’s eyes burned with an almost messianic intensity whenever he talked about going to China and rising up with peasants…Jul 14, 20248Jul 14, 20248
Published inSquare Peg PubGartenschlaeger’s last standOne man’s war against the killing machineFeb 146Feb 146
Published inSquare Peg PubThe night in Las Vegas when racketeers stole a world boxing titleLas Vegas, April 22, 1995: One judge called the bout even, two awarded it to George Foreman. Thousand of miles away in the glass-roofed…Jan 131Jan 131
Published inSquare Peg PubAmbushed: A Cold War photographer trapped in a murky arena of tyrannyHe was taken to a dark, subterranean world where teams of interrogators humiliated and beat prisoners. He was held in a cell without…Dec 24, 202417Dec 24, 202417
Published inSquare Peg PubThe Bar at the End of the WorldThe atmosphere this warm August Saturday night in 1961 at the Heidelberger Krug bar in Berlin’s American sector was convivial. But, as…Dec 13, 20243Dec 13, 20243
Published inSquare Peg PubEchoes from the dungeon: One family’s lonely fight against a vindictive Stalinist regimeEarly on the morning of February 28, 1963, Sigrid Ruehrdanz left her house in the Soviet sector of Berlin to go to work. When she reached…Dec 6, 202410Dec 6, 202410
Published inSquare Peg PubART THEFTS: How a 200-million-dollar collection of German mediaeval relics turned up in a Texas…“O’Hare didn’t have any souvenirs. Almost everybody else did. I had a ceremonial Luftwaffe sabre, still do. . . . Paul Lazarro . . . had…Nov 21, 20246Nov 21, 20246
Anatomy of a Banking Pillage: How to Create Two of the Worst Funds on Earth and Bleed Investors DryThe caller oozed bonhomie. He wanted to talk about my account at he ANZ, New Zealand’s biggest bank. Could we meet? I was not keen. I was…May 27, 2024May 27, 2024
The atom bomb: The untold story of how a source of uranium hidden in plain sight…By Simon BurnettMar 28, 20243Mar 28, 20243
The scribbler and the scoundrel: a chronicle of sport, crime and deathThe story of two former boxing opponents — and how one became an author while the other drifted into crime and died violently at a young…Feb 6, 20243Feb 6, 20243
