I'm getting quite worked up for next year's centeneary of WW1, a terrible conflict that began in July 1914 and drew all corners of the world into a clash of the Titans.
The Long Shadow was my first book and so it probably carries the most feeling input of all my work - though style and know how may have improved since then!
I have always felt strongly about the Eastern campaign which took place around the Northern Greek city of Salonika (modern day Thessaloniki) and wanted to bring it to people's attention. this arena of the war went mainly disregarded as most books tend to describe the horrors of the Western Front. But despite the lack of constant military engagement, the campaign in the Greece had other enemies. Malaria, freezing winter winds, terrible summer heat, boredom; when conflict did occur,there was almost total annihilation of the Allied troops engaged in battle due to the superior posiiton of the Bulgarian army high on a ridge called Devil's Eye.

Woven into all this is the story of Dorothy, a Red Cross nurse, and Costas, a Greek officer, who meet and fall in love. The second part of the book follows their son Andrew's story as he makes an epic journey to Greece as a young man to find his roots. Being Anglo Greek myself, I put my own heart and soul into this search for identity.
I am truly thrilled to have been asked to give a talk on The Long Shadow to the American College in Thessaloniki in May. The college is doing a project on the multicultural nature of the city at the time of WW1, which was indeed an amazing mix of races and religions then. It will be a fantastic experience to go there and meet the students.

For those interested in this story The Long Shadow ebook is for sale at $0.99 for one week. A printed copy is beign re-issued soon by Matador as the ist edition is now out of print.
Why not take a look? The Long Shadow