After a long and enjoyable stint in international advertising and public relations, Alan Ogden decided to change direction and write about the history and culture of Eastern Europe. Alan has written six travel books including Romania Revisited, Fortresses of Faith, Revelations of Byzantium, Winds of Sorrow and Moons and Aurochs. He has also penned a further five books mostly about SOE operations and Hungarian history, edited the official history of the Raiding Forces Aegean, and also wrote the Afterword for the reprint of Billy Moss' War of Shadows (Moss was PLF's partner in the daring WW2 abduction of the German general on Crete).

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• PrefaceA Note on Paddy's usage of place names and titlesPart 1 - 1934Chapter 1 - Romania in 1934Chapter 2 - Hungarian Hosts and HostessesChapter 3 - The Secret JourneyChapter 4 - Bucharest 23 October - 14 November 1934Part 2 - 1935-1945Chapter 5 - Descriptio MoldaviaeChapter 6 - BaleniPart 3 - 1946-1965Chapter 7 - The Curtain FallsChapter 8 - Toutes les Tristesses du MondePart 4 - 1966-2017Chapter 9 - Romania RevisitedBibliography Acknowledgements

After a long and enjoyable stint in international advertising and public relations, Alan Ogden decided to change direction and write about the history and culture of Eastern Europe. Alan has written six travel books including Romania Revisited, Fortresses of Faith, Revelations of Byzantium, Winds of Sorrow and Moons and Aurochs. He has also penned a further five books mostly about SOE operations and Hungarian history, edited the official history of the Raiding Forces Aegean, and also wrote the Afterword for the reprint of Billy Moss' War of Shadows (Moss was PLF's partner in the daring WW2 abduction of the German general on Crete).

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• PrefaceA Note on Paddy's usage of place names and titlesPart 1 - 1934Chapter 1 - Romania in 1934Chapter 2 - Hungarian Hosts and HostessesChapter 3 - The Secret JourneyChapter 4 - Bucharest 23 October - 14 November 1934Part 2 - 1935-1945Chapter 5 - Descriptio MoldaviaeChapter 6 - BaleniPart 3 - 1946-1965Chapter 7 - The Curtain FallsChapter 8 - Toutes les Tristesses du MondePart 4 - 1966-2017Chapter 9 - Romania RevisitedBibliography Acknowledgements