Author Profile

Robert William Pearson, 53yrs old, married with three children; full-time teacher and Head of Faculty at Kesgrave High School, Ipswich.

Literary Experience:

1st book published: Redd Gullet (Save the Gold) Dinamo Forlag 2010. This book documents the extraordinary rescue of the Norwegian gold reserves under the noses of the Germans with fifty tons of gold being shipped back to the UK by the Royal Navy. The book has attracted the attention of Sweet Films (Norwegian) in collaboration with an American production company. The American story proposal is fiction but based upon the facts given in Redd Gullet. The film company has requested an English version of the book, which has now been completed in manuscript form.

Film documentary credit: Kampen on Thamshavnbanen -. Treason and Sabotage (2010) http://gammaglimt.no/2012/02/29/treason-and-sabotage-2010/?lang=en - Gammaglimt AS.

Film documentary credit: Kai Holst – A Norwegian Tragedy (2013) http://www.nrk.no/ytring/kai-holst-_-en-norsk-tragedie-1.10963279 - Ekko Films.

Film documentary credit: Gulosten – Yellow Cheese by Gammglimt. Film currently in production.

Book credit: Haarr, G, The Battle for Norway, Seaforth Publishing, 2010.

Centre page article on last Royal Naval seaman to receive the Norwegian War Medal for his part in rescuing Norwegian gold bullion – Isle of Wight County Press – 2009. This was written by the author and published verbatim.

Assisting with documenting British veteran accounts for a forthcoming documentary on Norway 1940. As a result, the Producer of Ekko Films has approached the author for collaboration on a book to coincide with the documentary.

Future Projects:

Aside from possible film and documentaries, I am interested in investigating a story concerning The Great Escape, a tale that has never been published to date; the Glomfjord Power Station raid by Captain Black and the mystery of stolen Norwegian gold from a bank during WW2 that currently resides at the bottom of a Norwegian fjord. I have also been conducting peripheral investigations and collecting evidence in to Britons involved with the famous Gunnerside Raid and the use of British spies in Norway.