Author of The World War Two Series

I've written a novel for each of the seven years of World War Two, plus a sort of intro in 1938. To me, it’s an inexhaustible subject for many reasons, some of which are the moral issues it confronts, its parallels to today’s wars, and the ever-present possibility of dictator-driven genocide. The novels are not connected; their commonality being ordinary people whose lives and destinies are distorted by war. Each takes place in a fictional town, itself a character, and each has an underlying theme: one art, one sport, one music, one food, one science. (The theme of the last, is, appropriately, writing itself.) They’re fast-paced, evocative and historically grounded in the very real events that characterized each year of the global conflict.

The World War One series has just begun, with Charentin, 1918 and Denderbeck, 1915 already published. As with the World War Two series, the novels are independent and unconnected. They feature not famous figures from the period, but 'ordinary' people caught up in the conflict and showing their own brand of heroism.

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As David Westwood

“The Relationship: After One Month, After One Year,” New Woman Magazine, May 1990
“Freddie Fauve and the Search for the Lost Style,” LA Reader, 1991
The Office Manual, Two Heads, Kingston, Surrey UK, 1993
Cat’s Eye View I: Humans as Pets, Two Heads Publishing, Kingston, Surrey UK, 1994
Cat’s Eye View II: Mystery of Cats, Two Heads Publishing, Kingston, Surrey UK, 1994
Cat’s Eye View III: Kitticulture, Two Heads Publishing, Kingston, Surrey UK, 1994
The Cat Manual, Longmeadow Press, Stamford CT, 1995
The Love Manual, Two Heads, Kingston, Surrey UK, 1995
Dating, Mating, Relating, Longmeadow Press, Stamford CT, 1995
Book Review “Curiosities: The House on the Strand,” Fantasy & Science Fiction, Hoboken, NJ, 2002
Essay “Respect Yourself” in This I Believe: On Fatherhood, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco CA, 2011

As David Andrew Westwood

Kelsmeath, 1940, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2011
Mossingdene, 1944, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2011
Tullykillane, 1941, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2011
Deauvenoy, 1939, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2012
Valdinato, 1943, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2012
The Victorian Computer, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2012
Køpersund, 1942, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2013
Onishiwan, 1945, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2013
Charentin, 1918, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2013
Denderbeck, 1915, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2013
Emmerspitz, 1938, davidandrewwestwood.com, Los Angeles CA, 2014

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