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I'm John Mashler with Charles Spicer, the author of Coffee with Hitler, the untold story

of so many untold stories, but now we become bookish men. Because there is a book, only

100 copies were told reprinted, called None So Blind. It was a compilation of notes

made by Graham Christie and with his friend, Conwell Evans. They put together this book,

printed 100 copies, distributed them carefully to major libraries that were of interest

to them. And yet, it didn't get into general circulation until, well, it never did. And

part of the mystery is why not? In it, they tell the story of what we've been talking

about, all these efforts to connect Berlin and London to find a way besides total war.

Charles, you tell me that it is possible to find copies of None So Blind, though there

are 100 copies you've been successful at it. What in the book is critical to understand

today? All these efforts that were being made to

warn the British government about the dangers of Hitler's regime. It's direction

of travel, as well as all the detail that you've picked up, the chronology, the overarching

message that Christie was communicating is that the British government needed to act

on this information and act firmly. And that's not launched the Second World War early,

but just mobilise troops, mobilise the fleet, coordinate better with allies, really stand

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