by Dave McCall

Travel back in time to the years of the Second World War – as you’ve almost certainly never known them before.

Dave will tell us the “stranger than fiction” stories behind his 2022 book, A Betrayal of Heroes. Tales of Casablanca and Brazzaville, of the Spaniards who fought for Free France, of the 1940s celebrities and spies who were involved.

This is the sequel to his talk for the Moraira History group at La Senieta which exposed amazing, mostly unknown, facts about the Spanish Civil War. All his work has been meticulously researched. He has built a reputation for lively and “not to be missed” real life history.

About the speaker

David Ebsworth is the pen name of writer, Dave McCall. He was born in Liverpool (UK) in 1949, growing up there in the ‘Sixties.

He has recently done successful interviews and presentations with

• BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Bristol, Talk Radio Europe, and local newspapers both in the UK and in Spain;
• Waterstones, Foyles and independent bookstores in Manchester, Bristol, Liverpool, Formby, Edinburgh, Brighton, Heswall and Wrexham;
• in speaking engagements with the Harrogate History Festival, Bristol Literary Festival, Nottingham Labour History Circle, Wrexham Carnival of Words, UK Games Expo, various universities, Gedling Literary Festival, the Co-operative Party Annual Conference, and the UK Society for Co-operative Studies;
• and as a guest speaker with not-for-profit organisations like the Rotarians, University of the Third Age (in UK and in Spain), Women’s Institute, history societies, libraries (also in UK and Spain), and many others.