https://realhero.uk/categories/war/Recent content in War on Paul Greenhttps://realhero.uk/images/social/default-social.pnghttps://realhero.uk/images/social/default-social.pngHugo -- 0.147.8en-gbWed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://realhero.uk/blog/2026-05-06/Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://realhero.uk/blog/2026-05-06/<h1 id="writing-the-signal">Writing The Signal</h1> <p>I&rsquo;ve wanted to write a novel about the Second World War for as long as I can remember. That novel is still somewhere in the future. But when the idea for The Signal started forming, it pulled me back further — back to the mud of Flanders, back to 1917, back to a war that feels, in some ways, more remote and more strange than the one that followed it.</p>