Goodreads asked R.L. Bartram:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

R.L. Bartram I read an article in the "Nation" a now obsolete periodical, written by John Galsworthy, the author of the Forsyte Saga in June 1914. Basically it was a critique of the younger generation who, he said, "had been born to dance the moon down to ragtime". With the benefit of hindsight we now know that they in fact fought the bloodiest conflict of the twentieth century and paid a terrible price. The irony of Galsworthy's statement made such an impression on me that I used it as the title for the book it inspired.

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