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'Vermisst - Missing in Russia' is the story of German Paul Goetz and his love of aeroplanes and flying, leading him to join the air force in 1939. His first combat posting is The Leningrad Front, December 1941. It's minus 45 degrees, dark most of the time, and they all dread being captured. His nightmare comes true when on a hot July day in 1943 his engine fails behind the lines and he is captured.
Along with a Facebook Page for 'Kittyhawk Down' there is also a Facebook Page for 'Vermisst - Missing in Russia', where you can see the places, people and aeroplanes mentioned in the novel.
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Below: Kittyhawk Down
Kittyhawk ET574 on the day it was found in the Sahara by Jakub Perka,seventy years after it went missing. The cloth in the bottom left of the picture is Dennis Copping's parachute he'd used as a shelter.(Photo courtesy of Jakub Perka)
Kittyhawk ET574 as it was found in 2012 by Jakub Perka. ( Photo courtesy of Jakub Perka)
The Tragic Romance of Africa:
Dennis Hubbard was a naive 21 year old when he arrived at a small mining town called Broken Hill in tropical Northern Rhodesia, where he spent the next two years. They were to become the greatest
and most formative of his life. Together with his best friend Fred, he became involved in expeditions deep into the African bush, first on pedal cycles and then in a 1946 Flying Standard motor car.
They paddled a kayak on the lake adjacent to Mulungushi Dam, where they had first-hand encounters with the dangerous native wildlife - such as crocodiles and hippos - and many other near altercations
with elephants, buffalo and baboons. Dennis and Fred were recruited to the local Police Reserve and Dennis was shocked to see the segregation and discrimination that existed at the time. He
befriended some local Africans, contrary to firm advice from many other white people in Broken Hill.
Eventually, Dennis became truly absorbed into the colonial way of life just as the sun was setting on the British Empire. He used his rifle several times and became very familiar with the seemingly
endless and beautiful savannah lands that surrounded Broken Hill. Towards the end of his stay in Africa, there was a heated romance with great tragedy in store for both Dennis and Fred, the
horrendous circumstances of which will have the reader asking whether this is really a true story - unfortunately, it certainly is. Dennis was initially reluctant to share his story, and has so far
kept this desperately tragic end of his stay in Africa a deep, dark secret...Until now.
The Tragic Romance of Africa is a compelling combination of travel writing and memoir that also gives a unique and rare insight into a snapshot of Africa's history. It's a book that at times reads
like a novel due to its hard-to-believe content, and an account that is often hilarious, occasionally touching, sometimes moving but ultimately harrowing, set in a bygone age of colonialism, racism,
exploitation and adventure.
World War Two novels, Kittyhawk Down and Vermisst: both based on true events and real pilots.
Kittyhawk Down is based on Dennis Copping, who disappeared in the Egyptian Desert, and his aeroplane was found in 2012.
Vermisst is losely based on Paul Ratz, whose aeroplane was found in 1989 near St Petersburg (Leningrad).
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The thirteen passages of the book which caused it to be BANNED BY THE POLICE for fifteen months:
4. Also the same chapter describing levels of acceptable dishonesty amongst the public. Clearly no dishonesty is permitted!
5. The chapter 'Coffee' where I disposed of a suspect device without calling the bomb squad, and risked blowing myself up. A clear breach of protocol!
6. The chapter 'logistics' where the words 'cunt' and 'twat' are used privately between myself and a colleague. 'We don't want the public to think police officers use that kind of language' they told me.
7. The chapter 'Jimmy' where I describe a violent criminal as a 'thin and scruffy bastard'.
9. The chapter 'Race'. They didn't like this chapter. You'll have to read it.
10. The chapter 'Maternity', where I describe the great British underclass having babies.
11. The same chapter when describing a female criminal whose every other word she said was 'fuck'.
12. The same chapter when I charged a pregant criminal while she was actually giving birth.
13. The chapter 'Lies' where I describe a colleague perving at nurses.
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'Who'd be a copper?'
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Bulled boots, tunic, Burndept radio, truncheon down the right trouser leg. On foot patrol in Nottingham in 1986
'Cherry Picking - Life between the Sticks' The life of goalkeeper Steve Cherry. Published Feb 2019.
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