Reviews

Books & Articles


They Came to Spy - Stanley Firmin - 1947
From Art to Life and Back - Yvonne Hagen - 2006
Langes Seil, Schneller Tod - Traugott Vitz - 2016
Out of Nazi Germany & Trying to Find my Way - Irene Matthews - 2002
The M-Room: Secret Listeners - Helen Fry - 2012
Code Name - Dr. Rantzau (English) - Nikolaus Ritter - 2019
Operation Fortitude - Joshua Levine - 2011
Agent Tate - Tommy Jonason & Simon Olsson - 2012
A Window into the Minds of Abwehr Officers: Die Nachhut - 1967-1975
Shanghai Remembered - Bert Falbaum (ed) - 2005
Bella: An Unsolved Mystery - Joyce M. Coley - 2007
Some were Spies - The Earl Jowitt - 1954
The Beautiful Spy - reviewed - David Tremain - 2019
The Beautiful Spy (update) - David Tremain - 2019
Deckname Dr. Rantzau (Codename Dr. Rantzau) - Ritter - 1972
Hitler's Spies & Saboteurs - Wighton & Peis - 1958
Operation Lena - Bernard O'Connor - 2018
The Beautiful Spy - David Tremain - to be published 2019
Traitor, Lodger, German Spy - Tony Rowland - 2018 (fiction)
Book on Operation LENA - Jan Willem van den Braak - 2018
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany - Norman Ohler - 2016
Hangmen at War - new book - R. Clark & T. Vitz - 2018
Double Agent Celery - review - Carolinda Witt - 2017
Double Agent Celery - Update - Carolinda Witt - 2017
Who put Bella in the Wych Elm - Crime Scene Revisited - Alex & Peter Merrill - 2018
The London Cage - Helen Fry - 2017
Cargo of Lies - Dean Beeby - 1995
Airborne Espionage - David Oliver - 2005
Books I'll be Reading to Ring in 2018
Double Agent Celery - Carolinda Witt - 2017
The London Cage - Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland - 1957
Rough Justice - The Agent Dronkers story - 2016
Bella in the Wych Elm - In Search of a Wartime Mystery - 2016
Spion tegen Churchill (Spy against Churchill) - 2017
A Woman in Berlin - 2000
Horrible Histories - Spies - 2009
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths - 2008
Operation Sealion - 2014
Cruel Britannia - 2012
In the Highest Degree Odious - 1984
Unternehmen Seelöwe [Operation Sealion] - 2014
Banged Up: Doing Time in Britain's Toughest Jails - 2014
Camp 020: MI5 & the Nazi Spies - 2000
Shot in the Tower - 1997
A History of Modern Espionage - 1965
Tales from the Tower of London - 2004

Articles


Magazine Review - After the Battle Magazine - Vol 155 - 2010
Magazine Review - After the Battle Magazine - Vol 188 - 2020
Intelligence and National Security - Dramatising Intelligence History on the BBC: The Camp 020 Affair - 2019
Fortean Times - Bella in the Wych Elm - 2018
Birmingham Live - Bella in the Wych Elm - 2018
Kriminalia - The Executioner at War - 2017
Guardian - Secrecy and Firing Squads - 2016
Daily Telegraph (AU) - Last Man Executed in Tower - 2016
BBC History Magazine - Secret History of Spies - 2015
BBC News - Unsolved English Murder Mysteries - 2015
Daily Mail - Carl Hans Lody & Tower of London - 2014
Express & Star - Punt P.I. Investigates Midlands Riddle - 2014
Medal News - Two Gurkha Officers - Part 2 - 2014
Jerusalem Post - Hitler's Jewish Agents - 1999
Magazine Review - After the Battle Magazine - Vol 35 - 1982

Media


ZDF (German) - Geheimnisse des Towers - 2019
Yesterday Channel - Nazi Murder Mysteries (5) - 2018
Yesterday Channel - Nazi Murder Mysteries (6) - 2018
Yesterday Channel - Nazi Murder Mysteries (4) - 2018
Yesterday Channel - Nazi Murder Mysteries (3) - 2018
Yesterday Channel - Nazi Murder Mysteries (1 & 2) - 2018
Pregnant Fish Theatre - Reviews - Bella in the Wych Elm - 2018
BBC One Show - Last Execution at the Tower - 2017
Pregnant Fish Theatre - Bella in the Wych Elm - 2018
Casefile - True Crime Podcast - Bella in the Wych Elm - 2017
Mysteries at the Museum - Woman in the Wych Elm - 2016
HD Paranormal - Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm - 2017
Carnie Films - A Review of Bella in the Wych Elm - 2017
Carnie Films - A Preview of Bella in the Wych Elm - 2017
BBC One Show - Josef Jakobs & William Chidlow - 2017
Television - Final Jeopardy for Josef Jakobs - 2015
BBC4 - Majesty & Mortar - Britain's Great Palaces - 2014
HRP Podcast - Curious Connections: Spies & Us - 2014
BBC Radio - Execution of Carl Hans Lody - WW I - 2014
BBC Radio - Tower of London - Execution of 11 German Spies - 2014
BBC Radio 4 - Punt PI - Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm - 2014
PBS - Secrets of the Tower of London - 2013
HRP Podcast - Josef Jacobs - 2013
Film - Tales from the Tower - 2001- Part 2
Film - Tales from the Tower - 2001 - Part 1
BBC - The Spies that Fooled Hitler - 1999
BBC - Spy! Episode 2 - Camp 020 - 1980

Websites & Blogs

Website - All That's Interesting - piece on Josef Jakobs
Website - Coldspur - blog on B2B or not B2B
Website - Coldspur - on various Intelligence topics
Podcast - 13 O'Clock - Murder by Witchcraft
Website - Compilation 11 - 12 of the Weirdest Secrets of WW2
Various - A Blog, a Podcast and a YouTube Video about Bella in the Wych Elm
Blog - Any-NewsBD - Another article about Bella
Blog - Arbitrary Times... and Facts?
Blog - BS Historian - Blank Rounds & Firing Squads
Blog - Terra Incerta - Josef Jakobs and the Chair
Poem - Josef Jakobs and the Chair
Blog - National Archives - Shot in the Tower
Blog - History of Sorts
Blog - Secrets & Spies - Latchmere House
Errors Abound around Josef Jakobs
Latchmere House - St. Margaret's Community website
Robert Walsh blog on Josef Jakobs
Digitization at National Archives
World War 2 Today
Historic Ramsey in Pictures
Upwood & The Raveley's
Trivia Library entry on Josef Jakobs
Stephen Stratford entry on Josef Jakobs