Gerry Docherty

Having written a play called Lie of the Land about two local lads who were awarded the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Loos in 1915, I was approached by a retired GP (doctor) Jim Macgregor who was researching an alternative history about the causes of the First World War. We worked together for six years until we considered our manuscript was ready. Mainstream publishers (Edinburgh) immediately agreed to publish. Since then, Jim and I had the second volume (Prolonging the Agony) published by Trine Day in America. The works have been translated into French, German, and (illegally) Iranian and Maharhati. These publications led to literary presentations at the Edinburgh International Book Festival {1913) and onwards to Brussels, Dublin and London. My latest book Beyond Revanche was written as a crime and conspiracy novel in order to find a wider audience for the serious events we had detailed in our histories. During the centenary years we ran weekly blogs on what was actually happening one hundred years ago. These and collaborative work with James Corbett have had millions of hits.