My thanks to my lifelong friend, Dr Paul Brooksby, who felt inspired to donate a copy of Forest Brothers to the Shetland Bus museum in Scalloway. I don’t know what they made of it! The Norwegian navy were based in Shetland during the war and launched resiatnace operations to Nazi-occupied Norway. Their exploits are legendary […]
Month: September 2013
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Finnish Boys – the next novel
Q. So what’s it about? A. It’s a prequel to the novel ‘Forest Brothers’. It is set in 1941 during the first Soviet invasion and starts on the eve of the Red Terror, when 10,000 people were deported to Siberia. the story ends where Forest Brothers begins – on the shores of the North coast, […]