Book Title: Murder, Witchcraft and                                   Book Title: Goddess of the Seawolf

               the Killing of Wildlife                                                                                       
 
 

Book 1: The Day The Nazis Came  

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-78946-207-4

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-78606-336-6

Audio Book ISBN: 978-78946-250-0

 

First published in paperback in 2016.  The second, third and fourth edition published in 2017, 2020 and 2021.   It describes my experiences during WWII, from Nazi-occupied Guernsey to several German concentration camps with my parents.

 

I was only two years old when the Germans invaded my native Island of Guernsey. The Channel Islands were the only part of Great Britain to fall to the Blitzkrieg. At four years old, a personal edict issued by Hitler led the Matthews family, together with many thousands of Islanders deported.  First to a hell-hole concentration camp in Germany's industrial Ruhr and then to a former prisoner of war camp in Southern Germany.

 

I was ill-shod, poorly clothed and constantly hungry. By the time I was six years old, I had been bombed and had seen men die in front of me and walked with Jews straight off the train from Bergen-Belsen. I had nearly drowned in a weir and narrowly avoided being savaged by two guard dogs. I was beaten up by a pathological member of the elite SS.  I had my hand broken by a German guard for feeding Russian prisoners. I sat with my parents in the middle of a tank battle, with armour-piercing shells exploding all around the prison camp, then later I stumbled on a shattered human body in a minefield and had to be rescued by my father.  In 1945, we were finally liberated by Free French forces, with US infantry in support, when I was just eight years old.

 

Book 2: De Dag De Nazis Kwamen

‘The Day the Nazis Came’ has been translated into Dutch and published in the Netherlands by Omniboek.

 

Book 3: Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife

Hardback ISBN: 978-1-52676-407-2

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-52676-411-9

 

First published by Pen and Sword in hardback in 2019.  Second edition paperback published in 2024.  It is the Memoirs of a Police Officer in the Heart of Africa. The true story of my service in the British Police in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) during the Belgian Congo debacle, when I was 22 years old.

 

I describe a potential assassination attempt on the life of President Kaunda and acting as a bodyguard to President Tsombe from the breakaway state of Katanga. I also tracked down a dangerous British Army deserter and spy working in the Congo and Northern Rhodesia, then a British Protectorate.  

 

The book portrays many unique and true stories, dealing with bloodcurdling witchcraft murders and cannibalism in all its repugnant forms. It tells of black magic, kidnapping, arson, gunrunning, and people trafficking and in personally thwarting an ambush on a group of famous Congo mercenaries known as the Wild Geese. I was given a Government award for combating the abhorrent slaughter of wildlife. My life was saved several times by my courageous Doberman dog called Alex, who was regarded as a witch doctor by local tribes.

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I was indebted to Lee Durell M.B.E. PhD. for her ‘Message of Hope’. Lee is an American, world-famous naturalist, author, and TV presenter. Also to Peter Le Vasseur, International wildlife artist, naturalist, ecologist and fellow Guernseyman, for his kind permission to reproduce several of his iconic paintings in the book.

 

Book 4: Goddess of the Seawolf

Paperback ISBN: 979-8-952851-70-2

A historical, fictional novel will be published soon by Amazon.

 

Is it feasible that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun faked their suicides,

then escaped to Argentina by submarine in May 1945?

 

Well! 68% think that they did.

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 The author explores the possibilities through his hero, a decorated U-boat Captain Andreas Hartmann. Also called Andy, who was a prodigy of Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz. Similarly, he met regularly with Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, comprising Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Keitel and Martin Bormann. A heroine emerged called Laura Schwartz, also known as Goldilocks, who was Andy’s fiancée.  She was adopted by the submarine crew as their Goddess of Seawolf. Andy and Goldilocks would together create the love story of the century. Nevertheless, Andy would be confronted by large-scale murders, genocide, and a world war in his struggles to save his crew and U-boat. But who were the mysterious Leipzigs who travelled to Argentina on the Seawolf?

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