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Lecture

Greg Lewis and Helen Fry
The Nazi Ghost Train

Thursday 23.07.2026

How to watch

This lecture starts on 23 July at 7:00pm (UK).

Summary

Helen Fry in conversation with Greg Lewis on The Nazi Ghost train, the true story of how more than 1,400 women and men of the Resistance, as well as SOE and airmen from Britain, Canada, and the US, were saved from death in a concentration camp by the courage and ingenuity of a small group of Belgian civilians.

Greg Lewis’s book The Nazi Ghost Train: Evasion, Betrayal, and Escape during World War II is available on Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Greg Lewis

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Greg Lewis is a writer with a keen interest in resistance, evasion, and escape. An investigative journalist and award-winning documentary producer, his focus is on ‘ordinary’ people who have extraordinary stories. Over the past 30 years he has amassed a large archive of interviews with war veterans and searched for stories from inside Occupied Europe. His previous books include Defying Hitler (written with Gordon Thomas) which was a top-five pick in both USA Today and the New York Post. His most recent book The Nazi Ghost Train uncovered a little-known act of humanity and defiance from WW2 and became a Sunday Times bestseller.

Find his book here on Amazon UK

Helen Fry

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Helen Fry has authored and edited over 25 books covering the social history of the Second World War, including British Intelligence and the secret war, espionage, and spies, as well as MI9 escape and evasion. She is the foremost authority on the “secret listeners” who worked at special eavesdropping sites operated by British Intelligence during WWII. Helen is the official biographer of MI6 spymaster, Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick. She has also extensively written about the 10,000 Germans who fought for Britain during WWII. Helen has appeared in a number of documentaries and has provided advisory services for TV and drama. She also appears regularly in media interviews and podcasts. Helen is an ambassador for the National Centre for Military Intelligence (NCMI) and serves as a trustee of both the Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum and the Medmenham Collection. She works in London.