Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] end of this essay. Rosthorn, A., ‘Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?’ Lobster 77 2019. At . 1 Notably Thomas, W. H., The Murder Of Rudolf Hess (New York: Harper & Row, 1979) and
 Thomas, W. H., Hess: A Tale of Two Murders (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988). 2 McCall, […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] many suspects included both Churchill and Stalin, along with the Nazi Germans and the many Polish opponents of Sikorski’s policy of cooperating with Stalin despite the NKVD murder of 22,000 Polish officers and ‘intelligentsia’ in the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk. Even the surviving Czech pilot fell under suspicion. Lt Ludwik Lubienski, chief of the […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: Stan Bonnett and the Price of Admiralty Murder in Cairo,1 the book about the life and death of David Holden, chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday Times, got me thinking about one of Holden’s Fleet Street contemporaries, Stanley Bonnett. In 1960, in the twilight of the colonial empires, both Holden and Bonnett worked in […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] of those accused of taking advantage of Epstein’s generosity, in order to rape a thirteen year old girl, was Donald Trump who, the victim claimed, ‘threatened to murder her and her family if she told anyone’. When the allegation first came to light, the press ‘generally refused to report on the case’. Indeed ‘lawyers […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] talk about it.21 What a pity then that RFK Jr. has chosen to lead the American opposition to vaccines. For this will dominate the conversation, not the murder of his uncle. Why he has gone down this road is unclear to me. I commented on his anti-vaxx writing in this column in Lobster 84 […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] talk about it.21 What a pity then that RFK Jr. has chosen to lead the American opposition to vaccines. For this will dominate the conversation, not the murder of his uncle. Why he has gone down this road is unclear to me. I commented on his anti-vaxx writing in this column in Lobster 84 […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] another bombing suspect has been apprehended after explosions were caused in the hearts of urban areas in the US. Ahmad Khan Rahami is in custody, charged with murder for having planted the explosive devices in Manhattan and New Jersey (as well as apparently abandoning some more bombs in a New Jersey train). Depressingly, it […]

Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland by Anne Cadwallader

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] for fear of alienating what it perceived as the host (Protestant) population. In the earliest mainstream account of these Loyalist killings, Martin Dillon and Denis Lehane’s Political Murder in Northern Ireland (1973), the absence of prosecutions for these murders was attributed to the police force, the RUC, being overwhelmed by the number of deaths. […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] carrying out assassinations, terrorism and coup-plotting. The ‘strategy of tension’ in Italy in the late 1960s and 70s, in which the right carried out acts of mass murder and terror which were then blamed on the left, was partly the work of Gladio. In Turkey the Gladio units slaughtered the left, trade unionists and […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] night Wallace at first denied that he had seen Lewis but then admitted that they had met as stated in the diary. Wallace was originally charged with murder but the trial judge, Mr Justice Kilber-Brown, directed that the charge be withdrawn because of the weakness 73 of the prosecution case. The trial was repeatedly […]

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