Rory Clements was born on the edge of England in Dover. After a career in national newspapers, he now writes full time in a quiet corner of Norfolk, where he lives with his wife, the artist Naomi Clements Wright, and their family. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2010 for his second novel, Revenger, and the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018 for Nucleus. Three of his other novels – Martyr, Prince and The Heretics – have been shortlisted for awards.

Also by Rory Clements

Martyr

Revenger

Prince

Traitor

The Heretics

The Queen’s Man

Holy Spy

The Man in the Snow (ebook novella)

Corpus

Nucleus

Nemesis

Hitler’s Secret

A Prince and a Spy

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Letter from Author

Hello!

I want to tell you a little bit about the background to The Man in the Bunker.

Some of the action takes place in a displaced persons camp in Bavaria. There were hundreds of such camps throughout Europe because millions of people had been driven from their homes by persecution and the ravages of war.

Conditions varied greatly between these camps. There were still shortages of food and not all the establishments were run with kindness. Some were even based in former Nazi concentration camps, such as Bergen-Belsen. But despite this, there was one element that had been missing during the Nazi years: hope.

Young people who had lost their families were desperate to rebuild their lives. They fell in love and married at a remarkable rate. In one camp up to six couples were getting married every day (sometimes they divorced a couple of days later). Babies quickly appeared – in Bergen-Belsen alone there were 555 births in 1946.

The camps that lasted the longest became little towns with their own theatres, cinemas, newspapers, schools, religious centres, football teams and orchestras. Incredibly, many of the refugees still hadn’t found a permanent home ten years later. The last two camps didn’t close until the late 1950s.

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