Bob Cubitt

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on table number 20
at the summer
Oxford Indie Book Fair
on 13-July 2025

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My father served with the Army commandos during the Second World War. Like most of his generation he didn’t talk much about his experiences. There were lots of stories about how everyone pulled together and the “Blitz Spirit”, but very little of what he had actually did and what he saw while serving with the commandos.

During the 1990s he, along with many others, went to the National Army Museum to be interviewed for a project they were doing to capture the stories of the soldiers who served, in audio form. After my mother passed away and we were clearing out her house, I came across the tapes and took them home to listen to them.

What my father had to say was fascinating, for me at least, and I decided to turn his experiences into a biography, which I called “A Commando’s Story”. It required a lot of research in order to gather background material to accompany his recollections.

After I had finished the biography I realised I had a lot of material that I could use to support some fictional stories and so the “Carter’s Commandos” series was born. They take Steven Carter and his comrades on a series of adventures from Norway to North Africa and back to the Baltic Sea, and then onto further adventures in the 1950s and 1970s.

After writing nine books in that series, Steven Carter became too old for further adventures, so I started a second series, the “Forgotten Soldiers”. This series I suspect will be my last as my own years are advancing. But while I breathe my characters will still keep fighting.