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With an afterword by Max Hastings. Launched at the Mansion House, London, in November 2024.
To The River
Why would you risk your life and all that you love, for a stranger?
Umbria 1943. Nazi troops are massacring whole villages in retaliation for help being given to even a single fugitive. Outside a pretty country town is a prison camp of six hundred British, Commonwealth and American soldiers seething with hatred for Italians. When young widow Lucia does a deal with FitzGerald, all six hundred escape into the hills or make their way out of Nazi occupied Italy. FitzGerald himself moves from farm to farm until his contempt for Italians turns into admiration for the impoverished people who risk everything to succour a stranger. He sees in the women, children and old people left on the farms, a courage greater than that of soldiers. Instead of taking up arms again, he shepherds …
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Published in December 2024 by CamRivers and launched at the London School of Economics
Who Are We?
And how will we survive in the Age of Asia?
The future looks bleak for Generation Z unless they can wrest the narrative from a derelict political class. Politicians of left and right, obsessed with their own careers and blinded by outdated ideologies, have failed us. They have failed to rejuvenate our economy and consequently divided us into extremes of plutocrats and struggling commoners. They have sucked power and decision-making into the capital, leaving local communities and cities impotent. To rack up votes, they have bribed pressure groups with borrowed money which will be paid for by future generations in inferior services and higher taxes. Worst of all, they have failed to adjust to the new geopolitical reality of our age: Asia rising in wealth and power. As a result, …
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