I absolutely hate this bit, as I really don't like talking about myself!
Anyway, I am a 40 something Englishman, who had, something that seemed like a good idea several years ago.
That idea was to try to commemorate everybody, on both sides, who were killed or suffered during the First World War.
That idea, was a journey along the century old battlefields from Asiatic Turkey to the English Channel in Belgium.
My subsequent book is available as both an ebook and a paperback in English & as an ebook in Portuguese. (Paperback coming soon.)
The journey might be complete, but the "idea" isn't, hence why I am on here.
My biography isn't important, as my book isn't about myself. Rather, it is about the millions of dead from a century ago.
I would very much like to see my book translated into French.
Below is a short extract from my book that tells you why:
Following the French Ghosts.
"The French had been at my initial starting point at Kumkale, then at Gallipoli, where they had held the southern side of the front at Helles. I met up with them again at Lake Dojran, where they had fought alongside the British in those bloody hills. Further north inside Macedonia, they didn’t have the same reluctance as the British commanders, who ordered their troops to (not really) help Serbia, whilst the French headed north along the Vardar River to try to help the retreating Serbs. The British then wanted to abandon the Macedonian Front, only staying due to fierce protests from the French.
Meanwhile, further to the west, the French fought with tenacity and courage alongside the Greeks during the pivotal battle of Skra-di-Legen and the Serbs during the battles of Kajmakchalan and Dobro Pole, which led to the Bulgarian retreat of 1918.
After the Serbian Army’s dreadful retreat through Albania, the French alongside the British reorganised and re-equipped the Serbs, so that they could rejoin the fight to free their country.
Further North in Montenegro, they were involved in the fighting on Mt Lovcin. Whilst in Italy, they helped the British and Italians stem the German and Austro-Hungarian advance of autumn 1917. All of the above was done despite (or because of?) the majority of the Western Front being fought in northern France.
I’m an Englishman and us English seem to have a historical dislike of the French for some reason? (I haven’t said British, because the Scots seem to get on well with them!) Well, that’s not the case for me anymore, as you couldn’t find a better friend or neighbour than one who is more than willing to help her allies, even when the situation at home was so dire."
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Gallipoli to Yorkshire in remembrance of the Great War.
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