The background to A Betrayal of Heroes centres on the story of the Spanish Republican fighters who, despite Franco's victory in their civil war, carried on the battle against fascism and the Nazis. But that story begins with one of the greatest yet least-known episodes of the Second World War. Let's go back to the Allied defeat in the 1940 … [Read more...] about The Oath of Kufra
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Five Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know About the Spanish Heroes of the Second World War
My tenth novel, A Betrayal of Heroes, published in July. It picks up the story of Spanish Republicans who fought against Europe’s Nazis all through the Second World War. The Spanish Civil War - yes, it's a passion Yes, guilty! I write historical fiction. But all my stories solidly rooted in fact. My aim has always been to take special periods of … [Read more...] about Five Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know About the Spanish Heroes of the Second World War
How I was able to build and research a WW2 background
The third Jack Telford novel, A Betrayal of Heroes, is published in July 2021. And here's how I tried to build and research his travels and his trials. From Casablanca to Brazzaville, from the beaches of Normandy to the Liberation of Paris. I had three things on my mind - three things which inspired the story. First, at the end of the last Jack … [Read more...] about How I was able to build and research a WW2 background