Auteur: Alan Ogden

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). In his 2018 book The Vagabond and the Princess he gives revealing insights into Paddy Leigh Fermor”s many Romanian journeys and, in particular, the touching story of the youthful author”s love affair with the beautiful Princess Balasa Canatacuzino in the 1930s.