AS
the grandson of Captain George Stephenson (s.s.
Hartlebury) we have only recently learnt of the
history of his role in PQ17 and your book on the subject.
My father to this day does not speak too much of either
his or his fathers war service.

As a family we always knew that George was well decorated, OBE etc., but we only had a few press cuttings of the time (with no reference to PQ17 of course) so although we knew he must have had some story to tell, we never had too much insight into “his war”.

I would just like to thank you for your book and giving our family a look into the service history of our grandfather.

Peter
Stephenson

Related files on this website

David
Irving: A Radical’s Diary, August 2001
David
Irving Radical’s Diary in Action Report #15
Letter
to The Sunday Times, October 1968
David
Irving protests to the Air Ministry, April 1,
1969
Private
Eye published

on Feb 27, 1970 a memorable skit on Mr
Justice Lawton’s summing-up in the PQ17 libel
action

David
Irving: A Radical’s Diary on Court hearing, September
11, 1998

HOW very kind of you to contact me; the tragic
story of the s.s. Hartlebury always touched me the
most deeply when I wrote the book, over thirty years ago.
I contacted half a dozen of the survivors.

I have lost
contact with most of them years ago, but the widow of the
radio operator wrote me in the 1970s. You might like to
read not only the book, which is a free
download on my website but also my account of
the
resulting PQ.17 libel action. Captain Stephenson,
your grandfather, was a very brave man in my view.