Peter Hartley was in Singapore at the time of the capitulation. With a companion he made a bid to escape across the sea to Sumatra.

After a gallant period of liberty, he was captured by the Japanese and put to work on the dreaded jungle railway.

From then on his story is a recital of suffering and privation, yet it is not just another story of horrors at the hands of the Japanese.

Peter Hartley was an acute observer, and his report on the reactions of his comrades to long captivity makes interesting and even exciting reading.

First published by J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1952
Twice reprinted 1952
Now published by Panther Books 1956

Goebbels was the evil genius in the rise to power of Nazi-ism. Here is the story of this astonishing little man, this bitter and frustrated cripple who took a nation and moulded it to the shape of his own ferocious passion.

He was a family man... but his insatiable sexual appetite was the talk of Germany. He was weak physically, but more than anyone stirred up the violence within the Nazi Party, with its bloody purges and murderous street battles. He was utterly unlike the German conception of a warrior, yet was the mind that guided the German people into war; for without this master in the art of propaganda Hitler's ambition might have been considerably curtailed.

This is a truly dramatic story, with a Wagnerian climax in a besieged bunker in Berlin, with Hitler and his new bride comitting suicide, and Goebbels, the evil genius, having to kill his wife and six unfortunate children.

Based on the original German, GEFAHRTIN DES TEUFELS, published by Hoffman und Campe Verlag, Hamburg, in 1952, this work was translated and adapted by Louis Hagen and first published in English by Allan Wingate in 1953. Now published as a Panther Edition 1956