The character General Friedrich von Meyer in The Lipetsk Conspiracy is modelled on the real German officer General Hans von Seeckt, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr from 1920 to 1926, who believed the Versailles settlement could never be permanent. Rather than...

Hidden deep within Soviet Russia, some 400 kilometres south of Moscow, the airfield at Lipetsk became one of the most unlikely military partnerships of the twentieth century. Between 1926 and 1933, Germany and the Soviet Union—future enemies during the Second World...

All Tom Munro novels feature one or more aircraft “characters”, and without doubt the most notable aircraft in The Lipetsk Conspiracy story is the Junkers Ju 52/3m. With its corrugated metal skin, broad wings and three radial engines, it became one of the defining...