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Marcus Ferrar writes easily readable history about Central & Eastern Europe, World War II, the Holocaust, Communism and the transition to democracy and market economies, based on real stories of people living through dramatic events.

As an award-winning communication consultant, he works with businesses to help formulate strategies and communicate them effectively.
As a former foreign correspondent Marcus Ferrar has lived in six European countries, in East and West.
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NEWS
I’ve moved to Oxford from Geneva, Switzerland. full story

I’m on the Steering Committee of the Friends of Summertown Library campaigning to save the library from a threat of closure. read more

I’m doing consultancy work for British Airways.

I’m about  to start a book on my father’s WWII letters from the jungles of Burma.

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SLOVENIA 1945: Memories of Death and Survival after World War II
by John Corsellis & Marcus Ferrar was chosen as Book of the Year in 2005 by John Bayley, critic and widower of Iris Murdoch, in the Times Literary Supplement.

First published by I.B. Tauris, London, 2005
Slovene version by Mladinska Knjiga, Ljubljana, 2006
Italian version by Libreria Editrice Goriziana, 2008

β€œIt is right … that we too remember the tragedy which befell the Slovene people.”
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

"Presents us with a range of individuals as vividly seen and as sharply characterised as the multifarious inhabitants of War and Peace or A Dance to the Music of Time."
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FORTHCOMING BOOKS

budapest house
The Budapest House is a true story of how a Briton of Hungarian Jewish origin solves a conflict over her identity by returning to Budapest to work and find her roots. She tracks the tormented history of her Hungarian Jewish ancestors, and lives in the house built by her dead grandfather, the Budapest House.

Eventually she comes to terms with her past. Not so most of the Hungarians with whom she lived for five years. Like many other East Europeans, they remain trapped in the minds by the disasters of WWII, the Holocaust, Communism and the traumatic transition to market economy.

The main character eventual rids herself of the influence of Her Budapest House. But Hungarians cannot rid themselves of their own Budapest House. They remain locked in internal struggles from the past, and are disorientated in modern Europe.
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A Foot in Both Camps contrasts how Britons and Germans influenced human values over the past century, and draws original and challenging conclusions. Based on the author’s personal story and on years of research and interviews, this is a vivid account of our most recent history and an inspiring description of two countries and its people.
 
This true story told by a writer who was a foreign correspondent and has known Germans for over 50 years. It is popular history, drawing on testimony from his family and a range of other Germans from all walks of life.
 
As the son of a British father and a German mother who fell foul of Hitler, the author can interpret history from both British and German viewpoints. The story goes back to before World War I, but mainly covers the period from the 1920s to the present
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it . . .
George Santayana
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character . . .
Nietzsche

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