The Librarian’s Cellar: 31 Years of Hell! 1914 – 1945: An interview with author, Eamonn Ashe

In 1991, along with his sister Sheila, Eamonn Ashe took his mother to visit her late father’s grave in the war cemetery at St. Emilie near St. Quentin in France. She was 75 years of age at the time and she had never been to see his grave. It was also Eamonn’s first time visiting a war grave and on the way home, the idea of writing a book about the war seeded itself in his mind. His initial idea was to write a book about World War I but research quickly told him that there were plenty of books...