Bernard Neeson

I guess it was my father who first stirred my interest in World War 2. During the war he was a reserve officer in the Army, but as a schoolteacher he was not called to the front line. His role instead was to be ready to man the defence lines if the invaders ever reached the little country town where we lived.

Walking the byways around that town, years after the war ended, he could point out the tank traps and pillboxes still skulking there, festooned in weeds, waiting for the invader who never came. Even in a rural corner of Northern Ireland, hundreds of miles from the likely invasion sites in England, they had prepared.

My interest stayed passive during a long career in the technology industry, but with retirement came the opportunity to do more research. In Churchill's History of the Second World War, I discovered the sentence that took my story from pure speculative fiction, to the maybe, just maybe, category.

As a genre, Alternative History can run the gamut from wild fantasy about goblins and death-ray machines to tight stories based on small quantum shifts in timing, facts, or outcomes; the assassin's bullet that missed; the flap of the butterfly's wings.

My stories belong in the latter category. If you enjoy them, please let me know via a review on Amazon, or contact me via my website: www.bernardneeson.com

The photographs show me, on land and at sea, and the house and lake at Chartwell, where An Invitation to Hitler opens. Show Less

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AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEWS (Extract from reviews. Average rating 4.8)

"A real page turner" MT 5*

"Brilliant" BG 5*

"Read in one sitting... fascinating and cracking storyline" MM 5*

"Chilling to think this might have crossed his mind. A good read" MM 4*

"So well crafted, I began to doubt that it is fiction" Sk 5*

"Interesting Concept" Go 5*

"Great first novel" Br 5*

"An intriguing story which hovers between fact and fiction" Po 5*

"Best read in ages... A must for alternate history bods" KUJ 5*

"Great stuff" MPD 5*

"You will want to keep turning those pages... It will make you wonder - what if this had really happened?" MF 5*

"Good plot,good characters. An entertaining read" Helen Hollick (Amazon Vine Voice) 4*

"A fascinating alternative history" MP 5*

"Great read.. very thought provoking" BB 5*

"An excellent read... very hard to put down" FH 5*

"Interesting premise" Kindle Customer 4*

"A gripping thriller which I found hard to put down" Amazon Customer 4*