Hello, readers, listeners and fans. With the arrival of spring, I feel a new energy to complete all the projects I’ve been working on, with little progress for … well, I’m embarrassed to say how long. But the good news is: I have some new help in producing Beyond Barbarossa, the first English-language podcast in […]
I enter 2026 as a senior citizen. Yes, I turned 65 last week. It’s a natural time to reflect on life. And the turn of the calendar is another common prompt to try to sum up the previous 12 months. I have to say I’m really looking forward to the end of 2025. It’s been […]
In honour of Remembrance Day, also called Veterans’ Day and Armistice Day, here is an excerpt, part of a World War II soldier’s account of the reality of being a prisoner of the nazis. This excerpt came from Army of Worn Soles: Volume 1 of the Eastern Front Trilogy, the true story of a Canadian […]
It’s something you just cannot avoid or escape. It’s everywhere, and no matter how much you struggle against it, eventually you have to give in. Here it is, New Year’s Day, 2023. So I have to tell you my resolutions. Or plans. So here we go. The podcast As you know, I launched Beyond Barbarossa, […]
81 years ago on Wednesday, June 22, Nazi Germany launched the biggest land invasion in human history: Operation Barbarossa, its drive into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This began the biggest and bloodiest part of the Second World War in Europe, by an order of magnitude. On June 22, 2022, episode one of Beyond […]
Is the pandemic over? No, but we are learning to deal with it. Last week, for the first time after two years, I attended events to sell books directly, face-to-face, to readers. And wow, it felt great. There were a lot of masks to be seen, but a lot of maskless people, too. I’m quadruple-vaxxed, […]
Help spread the word about the Kickstarter campaign for Beyond Barbarossa and win prizes The fundraising campaign to support the start-up costs for the upcoming podcast is now live on Kickstarter, and I’m asking for your help to spread the word. Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform, where interested people can contribute money to pay for […]