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Peter Curtis

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Born
in Kosice, Slovakia, Slovakia
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Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fiction

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March 2016


My family lived in Prague and I was 3 when the Nazis invadedCzechoslovakia. We escaped through Hungary, Germany and France to Britain. I grew up in Britain and trained as a physician. Ended up a country doctor in Winchester. Married with 2 boys, who are now grown. We moved to the USA in 1976 and I taught students and residents and practised clinical care at the UNC Medical School in North Carolina. for 35 years.
I wrote short stories and started my trilogy based on my family's escape in WW2
First Vol = The Dragontail Buttonhole. 2016
Second Vol= Cafe Budapest, 2017. One of KIRKUS top 100 Indie books of 2018. Nancy Pearl Award for Historical Fiction
Third Vol = Pavel's War. Published Nov 2019 ...more

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Cafe Budapest. Sequel to Dargontail Buttonhole

Hello Goodreaders out there! My second novel, Cafe Budapest was published in April 2018. Its a sequel to the turbulent, tense Dragontail Buttonhole. Scoring much the same great ratings. All about the same family, the Kohuts, now stuck in France when WW2 is declared. Read what happns to them
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